diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fa15122..f02b0de 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -517,12 +517,12 @@ of content is ever fetched per page view.
   a large site to a handful of requests instead of hydrating the entire article set up front. The
   page count is exact once the whole set's been scanned, and a lower bound (at least one more
   page) until then.
-- **Crawl health** — if the root author-listing fetch fails outright, if every individual
-  author's own directory listing fails, or if very few of the known candidate files parsed
-  successfully (a malformed file name, or a total breakage like the wrong origin or CORS
-  misconfigured), a small warning banner is shown above the article list instead of silently
-  rendering an empty page (see `getCrawlStats()` / `renderCrawlHealthWarning()` in
-  `js/discovery.js` / `js/views.js`).
+- **Crawl health** — if the root author-listing fetch fails outright, or if every individual
+  author's own directory listing fails (wrong origin, CORS misconfigured), a small warning banner
+  is shown above the article list instead of silently rendering an empty page (see
+  `getCrawlStats()` / `renderCrawlHealthWarning()` in `js/discovery.js` / `js/views.js`).
+  Non-conforming `.md` file names aren't treated as a health problem — only as a per-file skip —
+  since indexing does no per-article fetch that could actually fail.
 - **Design rationale** — the original crawler design (wave-based crawling with a per-article
   listing fetch, recency prioritisation, HTML-autoindex fallback, long-term "deploy and forget"
   constraints) is documented in
diff --git a/js/views.js b/js/views.js
index 2a69883..bd29d62 100644
--- a/js/views.js
+++ b/js/views.js
@@ -172,27 +172,29 @@ function renderCard(article) {
 // autoindex disabled) should be visible rather than silently rendering an
 // empty/near-empty list forever — see .claude/nginx-sitemap-crawler-plan.md L3.
 // Three independent signals feed this: the root author-listing fetch itself
-// failing outright (rootFailed), every individual author's own listing
+// failing outright (rootFailed), or every individual author's own listing
 // failing (checked regardless of site size, since discovery.js now silently
 // skips individual author failures — see the wave-2 comment in
-// discovery.js), and, for larger sites, a near-zero loaded/total ratio at
-// the article level. Only meaningful once the crawl has actually finished
-// (`done`) — mid-crawl stats are incomplete and would misreport a healthy
-// crawl as broken.
+// discovery.js). Unlike an older version of this check, a low loaded/total
+// ratio (candidate .md files that didn't match the article naming
+// convention) is deliberately *not* treated as a health problem: indexing
+// does no per-article fetch at all, so a non-conforming file name is a
+// filename issue, not a network/CORS one — and legitimately non-conforming
+// .md files (notes, leftovers) coexisting with real articles shouldn't
+// trigger a false "something's broken" banner. Only meaningful once the
+// crawl has actually finished (`done`) — mid-crawl stats are incomplete and
+// would misreport a healthy crawl as broken.
 function renderCrawlHealthWarning(view, done) {
     if (!done) return;
-    const { total, loaded, authorsTotal, authorsFailed, rootFailed } = getCrawlStats();
+    const { authorsTotal, authorsFailed, rootFailed } = getCrawlStats();
     // rootFailed means the very first listing fetch (the author directories
     // themselves) couldn't be read at all — a total breakage same in spirit
     // as every author's own listing failing, just one level higher up.
     const authorsBroken = rootFailed || (authorsTotal > 0 && authorsFailed === authorsTotal);
-    const articlesBroken = total >= 5 && loaded / total < 0.1;
-    if (!authorsBroken && !articlesBroken) return;
+    if (!authorsBroken) return;
     const warning = document.createElement('p');
     warning.className = 'error';
-    warning.textContent = authorsBroken
-        ? t('crawlHealthAuthorsFailed')
-        : t('crawlHealthArticlesFailed', { loaded, total });
+    warning.textContent = t('crawlHealthAuthorsFailed');
     view.appendChild(warning);
 }
 
diff --git a/strings/cs.json b/strings/cs.json
index 0fd8971..d82ed90 100644
--- a/strings/cs.json
+++ b/strings/cs.json
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
   "readingTime": "{minutes} min čtení",
 
   "crawlHealthAuthorsFailed": "Pozor: nepodařilo se načíst žádného autora — zkontrolujte nastavení serveru.",
-  "crawlHealthArticlesFailed": "Pozor: načtena jen {loaded} z {total} položek — zkontrolujte nastavení serveru.",
 
   "loadingArticles": "Načítám články…",
   "loadingGeneric": "Načítám…",
diff --git a/strings/en.json b/strings/en.json
index d2954b4..02f9964 100644
--- a/strings/en.json
+++ b/strings/en.json
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
   "readingTime": "{minutes} min read",
 
   "crawlHealthAuthorsFailed": "Warning: couldn't load any authors — check your server configuration.",
-  "crawlHealthArticlesFailed": "Warning: only loaded {loaded} of {total} items — check your server configuration.",
 
   "loadingArticles": "Loading articles…",
   "loadingGeneric": "Loading…",
diff --git a/strings/sk.json b/strings/sk.json
index 40f7d6f..ff81b7b 100644
--- a/strings/sk.json
+++ b/strings/sk.json
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
   "readingTime": "{minutes} min čítania",
 
   "crawlHealthAuthorsFailed": "Pozor: nepodarilo sa načítať žiadneho autora — skontrolujte nastavenie servera.",
-  "crawlHealthArticlesFailed": "Pozor: načítaných len {loaded} z {total} položiek — skontrolujte nastavenie servera.",
 
   "loadingArticles": "Načítavam články…",
   "loadingGeneric": "Načítavam…",