diff --git a/public/js/selfoss-base.js b/public/js/selfoss-base.js
index 77d87bff55..d34e7fe1c7 100644
--- a/public/js/selfoss-base.js
+++ b/public/js/selfoss-base.js
@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ var selfoss = {
                 // update sources
                 selfoss.refreshSources(data.sources);
 
+                selfoss.setUnreadCount(data.unread);
+
                 // clean up
                 $('#content').removeClass('loading');
                 selfoss.activeAjaxReq = null;
@@ -301,6 +303,19 @@ var selfoss = {
                 }
             }
         });
+    },
+
+    /**
+     * show the unread count in the document title
+     * 
+     * @param int unread
+     */
+    setUnreadCount: function(unread) {
+        if(unread>0) {
+            $(document).attr('title', 'selfoss ('+unread+')');
+        } else {
+            $(document).attr('title', 'selfoss');
+        }
     }
 
 };
diff --git a/public/js/selfoss-events-entriestoolbar.js b/public/js/selfoss-events-entriestoolbar.js
index 074147955e..9cbf5374c8 100644
--- a/public/js/selfoss-events-entriestoolbar.js
+++ b/public/js/selfoss-events-entriestoolbar.js
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ selfoss.events.entriesToolbar = function(parent) {
                         tagsCountEl.html('');
                     
                 } );
+                selfoss.setUnreadCount(unreadstats);
             };
             updateStats(unread);
             
diff --git a/templates/home.phtml b/templates/home.phtml
index c645226fdc..88e7638e3b 100644
--- a/templates/home.phtml
+++ b/templates/home.phtml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
     <meta charset="utf-8">
 
-    <title>selfoss</title>
+    <title>selfoss<?PHP echo $this->statsUnread>0 ? ' ('.$this->statsUnread.')' : ''; ?></title>
     
     <meta name="description" content="selfoss" />
     <meta name="author" content="Tobias Zeising" />