diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 33a047c..9b7c2a4 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2016 Johannes Schobel
+Copyright (c) 2017 Johannes Schobel
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/src/JohannesSchobel/DingoQueryMapper/Parser/DingoQueryMapper.php b/src/JohannesSchobel/DingoQueryMapper/Parser/DingoQueryMapper.php
index d7fe61e..8c0e1fc 100644
--- a/src/JohannesSchobel/DingoQueryMapper/Parser/DingoQueryMapper.php
+++ b/src/JohannesSchobel/DingoQueryMapper/Parser/DingoQueryMapper.php
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class DingoQueryMapper
     // sort parameters
     protected $sort = [];
     // elements per page
-    protected $limit = 25;
+    protected $limit = 15;
     // page to display
     protected $page = 1;
     // offset of elements (page-1)*limit
diff --git a/src/JohannesSchobel/DingoQueryMapper/Parser/UriParser.php b/src/JohannesSchobel/DingoQueryMapper/Parser/UriParser.php
index 7c0028c..6e8f656 100644
--- a/src/JohannesSchobel/DingoQueryMapper/Parser/UriParser.php
+++ b/src/JohannesSchobel/DingoQueryMapper/Parser/UriParser.php
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ private function appendQueryParameter($parameter) {
 
         list($key, $value) = explode($operator, $parameter);
 
-        if(empty($value)) {
+        if(strlen($value) == 0) {
             return;
         }