diff --git a/app/package.json b/app/package.json
index 39862c1..762aca5 100644
--- a/app/package.json
+++ b/app/package.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "name": "church-translate-engine",
   "productName": "Church Translate",
   "version": "3.23.2",
-  "buildNumber": 113,
+  "buildNumber": 114,
   "private": true,
   "description": "Live sermon translation — self-contained: captures audio, transcribes, translates, and serves the congregation page itself",
   "main": "main.js",
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
       ]
     },
     "asar": false,
-    "buildVersion": "113",
+    "buildVersion": "114",
     "win": {
       "target": [
         {
diff --git a/app/server/server.js b/app/server/server.js
index e5e2e1c..2c51504 100644
--- a/app/server/server.js
+++ b/app/server/server.js
@@ -500,6 +500,23 @@ const ENGINE_STALE_MS = 12000;
  * with one plain sentence does. Computed here so every operator surface —
  * in-app pane, browser page — shows the same verdict.
  */
+/*
+ * WHEN IT IS BEHIND, SAY WHAT IS LOADING IT.
+ *
+ * Translation cost is roughly linear in the number of active languages, through
+ * ONE NLLB process — measured, five languages in 1.9 s. So the single most
+ * useful fact about a machine that is falling behind is how many languages it
+ * is carrying, and that number was computed one function away and never shown.
+ * A campus reported "constantly behind, in the red" and the cause took an
+ * afternoon to find; it was eight languages on hardware tuned against one.
+ */
+function loadNote() {
+  const n = activeLanguages().length;
+  if (n < 2) return '';
+  return ' Carrying ' + n + ' languages' +
+         (config.allowAllLanguages ? ', and listeners may add more' : '') + '.';
+}
+
 function healthVerdict(connected, stale) {
   const es = state.engineStatus || {};
   if (!connected)               return { level: 'red',   detail: 'The translation app is not connected.' };
@@ -507,9 +524,11 @@ function healthVerdict(connected, stale) {
   if (!state.live)              return { level: 'green', detail: 'Ready.' };
   if (!es.modelsReady)          return { level: 'amber', detail: 'Models are still loading.' };
   if ((es.lagMs || 0) > 12000 || (es.captionOnlyFinals || 0) > 0)
-    return { level: 'red',   detail: 'Falling badly behind — some sentences are captions only.' };
+    return { level: 'red',
+             detail: 'Falling badly behind — some sentences are captions only.' + loadNote() };
   if ((es.lagMs || 0) > 6000 || (es.queue || 0) >= 2 || (es.degradedFinals || 0) > 0)
-    return { level: 'amber', detail: 'Running behind — idle languages may be trimmed to catch up.' };
+    return { level: 'amber',
+             detail: 'Running behind — idle languages may be trimmed to catch up.' + loadNote() };
   if (es.cloud && es.cloud.parked)
     return { level: 'amber', detail: 'Natural voices are down — the built-in voices have taken over.' };
   /* A fallback in the last minute means one language just changed voice