Shog9's proposal is a good solution too and it addresses the same problem; so we might as well call this a duplicate.

I posted a suggestion on this in the past: don't display the total size of the queue as the prominent number, instead display a smaller, actionable number for ME personally. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/148551/…

And you're well underway here already :)

I think this is an acceptable edit and that you did as good a job as possible (including the comment to your edit). This is somewhat hard to review, especially when reviewers are hunting for badges. Curious about how to handle this, so +1.

@KnightswhosayNi thanks for the pointer ... I had the concept mixed up.