diff --git a/app/activity.rb b/app/activity.rb
index 4270f719..a2da5318 100644
--- a/app/activity.rb
+++ b/app/activity.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 get '/activity' do
-  expires 14400, :public, :must_revalidate if self.class.production? # 4 hours
+  expires 7200, :public, :must_revalidate if self.class.production? # 2 hours
   params[:activity] = 'global' # FIXME this is a bad hack
   @events = Event.global_dataset.all
   erb :'activity'
diff --git a/models/event.rb b/models/event.rb
index a86eb6bb..1cb84918 100644
--- a/models/event.rb
+++ b/models/event.rb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ class Event < Sequel::Model
   many_to_one :site
   many_to_one :actioning_site, key: :actioning_site_id, class: :Site
 
-  DEFAULT_GLOBAL_LIMIT = 100
+  DEFAULT_GLOBAL_LIMIT = 200
   GLOBAL_VIEWS_MINIMUM = 500
 
   def self.global_dataset(current_page=1, limit=DEFAULT_GLOBAL_LIMIT)