diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b3fe287..6139020 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ GEMINI_RSYNC_DEST = $(USER):$(GEMINI_ROOT)
 
 OUTPUT_DIR = public
 RSYNCFLAGS += -rlpcv --zc=zstd --zl=6 --skip-compress=gz/br/zst/png/webp/jpg/avif/jxl/mp4/mkv/webm/opus/mp3
+RSYNCFLAGS_EXTRA ?=
 # compression gets slow for extreme levels like the old "70109"
 ECT_LEVEL=9
 
@@ -66,14 +67,14 @@ htmlproofer:
 	htmlproofer $(OUTPUT_DIR) --disable-external --report-invalid-tags --report-missing-names --report-missing-doctype --report-eof-tags --report-mismatched-tags --check-html --check-opengraph --check-favicon --empty-alt-ignore --file-ignore $(OUTPUT_DIR)/search/index.html --url-ignore '../music.txt'
 
 linter-configs/htmltest.yml:
-	rsync $(RSYNCFLAGS) deploy@seirdy.one:/home/deploy/refcache.json linter-configs/htmltest/refcache.json
+	rsync $(RSYNCFLAGS) $(RSYNCFLAGS_EXTRA) deploy@seirdy.one:/home/deploy/refcache.json linter-configs/htmltest/refcache.json
 
 # basic checks for generated HTML and broken links. Persist the broken
 # link cache remotely so we can run this in CI.
 .PHONY: htmltest
 htmltest: linter-configs/htmltest.yml
 	htmltest -c linter-configs/htmltest.yml $(OUTPUT_DIR)
-	rsync $(RSYNCFLAGS) linter-configs/htmltest/refcache.json deploy@seirdy.one:/home/deploy/refcache.json
+	rsync $(RSYNCFLAGS) $(RSYNCFLAGS_EXTRA) linter-configs/htmltest/refcache.json deploy@seirdy.one:/home/deploy/refcache.json
 
 .PHONY: hint
 hint: hugo .hintrc-local
@@ -122,11 +123,11 @@ mentions.json: hugo
 
 .PHONY: deploy-html
 deploy-html:
-	rsync $(RSYNCFLAGS) --exclude 'gemini' --exclude '*.gmi' --exclude-from .rsyncignore $(OUTPUT_DIR)/ $(WWW_RSYNC_DEST) --delete
+	rsync $(RSYNCFLAGS) $(RSYNCFLAGS_EXTRA) --exclude 'gemini' --exclude '*.gmi' --exclude-from .rsyncignore $(OUTPUT_DIR)/ $(WWW_RSYNC_DEST) --delete
 
 .PHONY: deploy-gemini
 deploy-gemini:
-	rsync $(RSYNCFLAGS) --exclude '*.html' --exclude '*.xml' --exclude '*.xhtml' --exclude '*.gz' --exclude '*.br' --exclude-from .rsyncignore $(OUTPUT_DIR)/gemini/ $(OUTPUT_DIR)/about $(OUTPUT_DIR)/posts $(OUTPUT_DIR)/about $(OUTPUT_DIR)/publickey.* $(GEMINI_RSYNC_DEST)/ --delete
+	rsync $(RSYNCFLAGS) $(RSYNCFLAGS_EXTRA) --exclude '*.html' --exclude '*.xml' --exclude '*.xhtml' --exclude '*.gz' --exclude '*.br' --exclude-from .rsyncignore $(OUTPUT_DIR)/gemini/ $(OUTPUT_DIR)/about $(OUTPUT_DIR)/posts $(OUTPUT_DIR)/about $(OUTPUT_DIR)/publickey.* $(GEMINI_RSYNC_DEST)/ --delete
 
 .PHONY: deploy
 deploy: deploy-html deploy-gemini
diff --git a/scripts/bin/check-whole-site b/scripts/bin/check-whole-site
index 6eb3cf9..b547b4f 100755
--- a/scripts/bin/check-whole-site
+++ b/scripts/bin/check-whole-site
@@ -61,8 +61,9 @@ base_url="${1-http://localhost:8089}"
 
 # HTML validation is already parallelized, so run that single-threaded.
 make -j1 HUGO_FLAGS=-DF HUGO_BASEURL="$base_url" clean hugo xhtmlize validate-html
-make -j "$jobs" -f Makefile.online HUGO_BASEURL="$base_url" all-extra URLS="$(curl -sSL "$base_url/sitemap.xml" | htmlq loc -t | rg -v '/search/$' | tr '\n' ' ')"
-make deploy-staging -j "$jobs"
+make -j "$jobs" -f Makefile.online HUGO_BASEURL="$base_url" all-extra URLS="$(curl -sSL "$base_url/sitemap.xml" | htmlq loc -t | rg -v '/search/$' | tr '\n' ' ')" &
+make deploy-staging RSYNCFLAGS_EXTRA=-q
+wait
 make -f Makefile.online hint-online URLS="$(curl -sSL --compressed https://staging.seirdy.one/sitemap.xml | htmlq loc -t | rg -v '/(?:search|wcag-is-a-starting-point)/$' | sort | tr '\n' ' ')"
 # TODO: run lighthouse on every page in the sitemap.