diff --git a/src/components/archiveList.vue b/src/components/archiveList.vue
index 06f4ddf..f244f4e 100644
--- a/src/components/archiveList.vue
+++ b/src/components/archiveList.vue
@@ -131,8 +131,7 @@ export default {
   data() {
     return {
       columns_order: {'title': 'asc', 'artist': 'asc', 'collection': 'asc', 'date': 'asc'},
-      active_column: 'title',
-      column_order: 'asc',
+      active_column: 'date',
       faSortAlphaUp: faSortAlphaUp,
       faSortAlphaDown: faSortAlphaDown,
     };
@@ -144,7 +143,11 @@ export default {
 
   },
   mounted() {
-    this.setSites(JSON.parse(this.collections))
+    var payload = {
+              'sites': JSON.parse(this.collections),
+              'column_name': 'date',
+              'order': this.columns_order['date']}
+    this.setSites(payload)
 
   },
   methods: {
@@ -154,7 +157,7 @@ export default {
       } else {
         this.active_column = name
       }
-      this.setColumnOrder({'name': name, 'order': this.columns_order[name]})
+      this.setColumnOrder({'column_name': name, 'order': this.columns_order[name]})
     },
     isActiveCol: function(name) {
       return name == this.active_column ? true : false
diff --git a/src/store.js b/src/store.js
index fd1677e..19dadf2 100644
--- a/src/store.js
+++ b/src/store.js
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ const store = new Vuex.Store({
     setSearchText(state, text) {
       state.search_text = text
     },
-    setSites(state, sites) {
-      state.sites = sites
+    setSites(state, payload) {
+      state.sites = _.sortBy(payload.sites, payload.column_name)
     },
     setFilteredSites(state, filtered_site_ids) {
       console.log(filtered_site_ids)
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ const store = new Vuex.Store({
       state.filtered_sites = sites
     },
     setColumnOrder(state, payload) {
-      var column_name = payload.name
+      var column_name = payload.column_name
       var order = payload.order
       state.sites = _.sortBy(state.sites, column_name)
       state.filtered_sites = _.sortBy(state.filtered_sites, column_name)