diff --git a/htroot/env/base.css b/htroot/env/base.css
index e7a548f0e..b2ed80399 100644
--- a/htroot/env/base.css
+++ b/htroot/env/base.css
@@ -230,18 +230,30 @@ div.Tags {
   padding-left: 5px;
 }
 
-div.ProgressBarCaption {
-	float:left;
-	width:70px;
-}
 div.ProgressBar {
-	float:left;
-	width:100px;
-	height:10px;
+	width:100%;
+	height:1.5em;
+	position: relative; /* for "relative" absolute pos of children */
+	margin:1em auto;
+	text-align:left;
 }
 div.ProgressBarFill {
 	margin:0px;
 	height:100%; /*not valid value for Netscape 8*/
+	position: absolute;
+	left: 0px;
+	top: 0px;
+}
+
+#resCounter {
+	/* left part of the progress bar */
+	position: absolute;
+	left: 1em;
+}
+div.ProgressBar > #pagenav {
+	/* right part of the progress bar */
+	position: absolute;
+	right: 1em;
 }
 
 div.bookmarkList, div.Tags {
diff --git a/htroot/js/yacysearch.js b/htroot/js/yacysearch.js
index e30c7ce5f..d3e2583b6 100644
--- a/htroot/js/yacysearch.js
+++ b/htroot/js/yacysearch.js
@@ -12,23 +12,22 @@ function Progressbar(length, parent) {
 
   // use this function to display the progress, because it updates everything
   this.step = function(count) {
-    this.position += count;
+    if (this.position < this.length)
+      this.position += count;
+
     // update the bar
     this.percentage = this.position*(100/this.length);
     this.fill.style.width = this.percentage + "%";
 
     // if the end is reached, the bar is hidden/removed
-    if(this.position==this.length)
-      removeAllChildren(this.element);
+    if(this.position >= this.length) {
+      this.fill.style.visibility = "hidden";
+    }
   }
 
   // the actual progressbar
   var bar = document.createElement("div");
   bar.className = "ProgressBar";
-  bar.style.width = "100%";
-  bar.style.height = "20px";
-  bar.style.margin = "10px auto";
-  bar.style.textAlign = "left";
 
   // the actual bar
   this.fill = document.createElement("div");
@@ -36,17 +35,21 @@ function Progressbar(length, parent) {
   this.fill.style.width = "0%"
   bar.appendChild(this.fill);
 
-  // a description for the bar
-  var description = document.createTextNode(DESCRIPTION_STRING);
-  var textcontainer = document.createElement("strong");
-  textcontainer.appendChild(description);
-
   // the container for the elements used by the Progressbar
   this.element = document.createElement("div");
   this.element.style.textAlign = "center";
   // get hasLayout in IE, needed because of the percentage as width of the bar
   this.element.className = "gainlayout";
-  this.element.appendChild(textcontainer);
+
+  // results counter inside progress bar
+  var resCounter = document.getElementById("resCounter");
+  resCounter.style.display = "inline";
+  bar.appendChild(resCounter);
+
+  // the result sites navigation
+  var pagenav = document.getElementById("pagenav");
+  pagenav.style.display = "inline";
+  bar.appendChild(pagenav);
   this.element.appendChild(bar);
   parent.appendChild(this.element);
 }
diff --git a/htroot/yacysearch.html b/htroot/yacysearch.html
index 40dd0ca2b..d1ee1664c 100644
--- a/htroot/yacysearch.html
+++ b/htroot/yacysearch.html
@@ -99,8 +99,9 @@ document.getElementById("Enter").value = "search again - catch up more links";
 	::
 	<p>No Results. (length of search words must be at least 3 characters)</p>
 	::
-	<p><strong id="resultsOffset">#[offset]#</strong>-<strong id="itemscount">#[linkcount]#</strong> results from a total number of <strong id="totalcount">#[totalcount]#</strong> known#(globalresults)#.::, <strong id="globalcount">#[globalcount]#</strong> links from other YaCy peers.#(/globalresults)#<div id="results"></div></p>
-	<p>Search Result Pages: <span id="pagenav">#[pagenav]#</span></p>
+	<div id="results"></div>
+	<span id="resCounter" style="display: none"><strong id="resultsOffset">#[offset]#</strong>-<strong id="itemscount">#[linkcount]#</strong> results from a total number of <strong id="totalcount">#[totalcount]#</strong> known#(globalresults)#.::, <strong id="globalcount">#[globalcount]#</strong> links from other YaCy peers.#(/globalresults)#</span>
+	<span id="pagenav" style="display: none">#[pagenav]#</span>
 	::
 	<p>Searching the web with this peer is disabled for unauthorized users. Please <a href="Status.html?login=">log in</a> as administrator to use the search function</p>
 #(/num-results)#