diff --git a/src/pages/cannons.astro b/src/pages/cannons.astro
index 7641d1c..418f3e8 100644
--- a/src/pages/cannons.astro
+++ b/src/pages/cannons.astro
@@ -12,15 +12,17 @@ const builtAt = build?.builtAt
       timeZone: 'America/New_York',
     })
   : 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;
+// The gzipped total, which is what a public visitor pays: cyrion serves the
+// .gz siblings via gzip_static, and NPM now asks for them (a `location ^~
+// /cn/` in that host's advanced config -- needed because NPM blanks
+// Accept-Encoding globally AND its assets.conf caches *.js from a regex
+// location with Vary stripped, which would pin one encoding for everyone).
+//
+// On the LAN it is still the raw figure: garden.c0smere.net resolves to Caddy
+// indoors, not NPM, and Caddy hands back uncompressed. Public is the number
+// that belongs on a public page, and rawBytes is in the manifest if that ever
+// stops being true.
+const overTheWire = build ? mb(build.wireBytes) : null;
 ---
 
 <Base
@@ -50,9 +52,8 @@ const overTheWire = build ? mb(build.rawBytes ?? 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 — {mb(build.bytes['classes.js'])} MB
-            of client, {mb(build.bytes['cannons.wasm'])} MB of server, and the
-            game's own art
+            downloads about {overTheWire} MB — the client, the server, and
+            the game's own art, compressed
           </span>
         </button>
       </div>