diff --git a/deploy/nginx.conf b/deploy/nginx.conf
index 4add612..205734b 100644
--- a/deploy/nginx.conf
+++ b/deploy/nginx.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+# ⚠️ An edit here is NOT live until the container is recreated:
+#   docker compose -f deploy/docker-compose.yml up -d --force-recreate garden
+# This file is bind-mounted as a single FILE, which pins its inode, so the
+# `git pull` at the top of every build tick replaces it with a new inode the
+# running container never sees. auto-build.sh only builds dist/ -- nothing in
+# the automated path touches compose. The build goes green and the config
+# simply is not live; `docker exec garden grep ... /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf`
+# is how you tell.
+
 server {
     listen 80;
     server_name _;
diff --git a/src/pages/cannons.astro b/src/pages/cannons.astro
index 6a59ebf..7641d1c 100644
--- a/src/pages/cannons.astro
+++ b/src/pages/cannons.astro
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import { loadCannons, cannonsFrameUrl } from '../lib/cannons.mjs';
 
 const build = loadCannons();
 const mb = (n) => (n / 1048576).toFixed(1);
-const kb = (n) => Math.round(n / 1024);
 const builtAt = build?.builtAt
   ? new Date(build.builtAt).toLocaleString('en-US', {
       year: 'numeric',
@@ -13,10 +12,15 @@ const builtAt = build?.builtAt
       timeZone: 'America/New_York',
     })
   : null;
-// What a visitor actually downloads: the export script sums the .gz for
-// everything that has one and the file itself for the images, which are
-// already-compressed formats gzip would only make bigger.
-const overTheWire = build ? mb(build.wireBytes) : null;
+// The RAW total, not the gzipped one, because that is what a visitor to
+// garden.c0smere.net actually pays: NPM on the VPS blanks Accept-Encoding for
+// every proxied request (its own nginx.conf:44), so cyrion's gzip_static is
+// never asked and answers uncompressed. The .gz files exist and are correct;
+// nothing public reaches them yet. Switch this to build.wireBytes -- about a
+// third of the size -- once NPM passes the header through. Overstating the
+// cost is the safe direction for a button whose whole job is to be honest
+// about it. rawBytes is absent from exports made before this was noticed.
+const overTheWire = build ? mb(build.rawBytes ?? build.wireBytes) : null;
 ---
 
 <Base
@@ -46,8 +50,9 @@ const overTheWire = build ? mb(build.wireBytes) : null;
         <button class="cn-start" type="button" data-src={cannonsFrameUrl}>
           <span class="cn-start-label">Play</span>
           <span class="cn-start-sub">
-            downloads about {overTheWire} MB — {kb(build.bytes['classes.js.gz'])} KB
-            of client and {mb(build.bytes['cannons.wasm.gz'])} MB of server
+            downloads about {overTheWire} MB — {mb(build.bytes['classes.js'])} MB
+            of client, {mb(build.bytes['cannons.wasm'])} MB of server, and the
+            game's own art
           </span>
         </button>
       </div>