diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2b3c9e9..24c0183 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,22 @@ This project follows a Keep a Changelog-style format and uses version tags for r
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.9.4] - 2026-08-12
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **The local cover page (`docs/cover.html`) never rendered its hero image.**
+  It referenced `actop-demo.gif` relative to `docs/`, but the GIF lives in
+  `images/` — so opening the local copy always showed a broken image. It now
+  points at `../images/actop-demo.gif`, which resolves without duplicating a
+  4.3 MB binary into the repo.
+- **`docs/cover.html` is regenerated from the build output** rather than
+  hand-edited, so it matches what is actually published. It had drifted several
+  versions behind and carried a hand-written version string that the build
+  injects automatically. Regenerating it at the same version as the tag keeps
+  the rendered copy and `pyproject.toml` in agreement; it is a snapshot of the
+  published page, and `cover/index.html` remains the single source.
+
 ## [1.9.3] - 2026-08-12
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/docs/cover.html b/docs/cover.html
index 3195b03..0bf50da 100644
--- a/docs/cover.html
+++ b/docs/cover.html
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-<!-- repo:c53e879 built:2026-08-12T17:30:00Z -->
+<!-- repo:8feed7b built:2026-08-13T03:41:41Z -->
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html lang="en">
 <head>
 <meta charset="UTF-8">
 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
 <title>actop — Apple Silicon performance monitor</title>
-<meta name="description" content="actop is a sudoless, in-process performance monitor for M1–M4 Macs: CPU/GPU/ANE utilization, per-core frequency, memory bandwidth, power, and thermals — plus a Python API for profiling your own LLM / MLX / CoreML workloads.">
+<meta name="description" content="actop is a sudoless, in-process performance monitor for M1–M4 Macs: CPU/GPU/ANE utilization, per-core frequency, memory bandwidth, network/disk I/O, power, and thermals — plus a Python API for profiling your own LLM / MLX / CoreML workloads.">
 <style>
   :root {
     --bg: #0d1117;
@@ -166,14 +166,14 @@
 
 <section class="hero">
   <div class="wrap">
-    <span class="badge">v1.9.0</span>
+    <span class="badge">v1.9.4</span>
     <h1>actop<span>.</span></h1>
     <p class="tagline">
       Watch your Apple Silicon Mac the way it actually works — <strong>sudoless</strong>,
       in-process, for M1–M4.
     </p>
     <div class="demo">
-      <img src="actop-demo.gif" alt="actop live during a llama.cpp inference run: E-CPU/P-CPU/GPU/ANE utilization, per-core frequency, memory bandwidth, and power charts on Apple Silicon">
+      <img src="../images/actop-demo.gif" alt="actop live during a llama.cpp inference run: E-CPU/P-CPU/GPU/ANE utilization, per-core frequency, memory bandwidth, and power charts on Apple Silicon">
       <div class="caption">Live under a local llama.cpp run — the stack layout with braille then block sparklines, then the process panel with its watt-attributed PWR column.</div>
     </div>
   </div>
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ <h3><span class="ic">▮</span>Memory bandwidth</h3>
         <p>Live GB/s against the SoC's peak, with a bandwidth-saturation alert and a MEM-BOUND indicator.</p>
       </div>
       <div class="feature">
-        <h3><span class="ic">▮</span>Network & disk I/O</h3>
-        <p>Throughput on both buses as mirrored in-over-out charts, read unprivileged from <code>getifaddrs</code> and IOKit volume counters — no <code>iostat</code> subprocess.</p>
+        <h3><span class="ic">▮</span>Net / disk I/O</h3>
+        <p>Network and disk throughput as mirrored in-over-out charts sharing a zero axis, sourced from native getifaddrs and IOKit counters — no sudo, no subprocesses.</p>
       </div>
       <div class="feature">
         <h3><span class="ic">▮</span>Thermals & throttling</h3>
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ <h2>actop — Apple <span style="color: var(--accent);">C</span>hip top</h2>
 
 <footer>
   <div class="wrap">
-    <p>actop v1.9.0 · an independent project inspired by <a href="https://github.com/tlkh/asitop">asitop</a> · MIT licensed</p>
+    <p>actop v1.9.4 · an independent project inspired by <a href="https://github.com/tlkh/asitop">asitop</a> · MIT licensed</p>
   </div>
 </footer>
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f39fe85..2dc7e4b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "actop"
-version = "1.9.3"
+version = "1.9.4"
 description = "Apple Silicon (M1–M4) power, GPU, ANE & memory-bandwidth monitor — sudoless TUI + Python API for profiling local LLM / MLX / CoreML inference"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = { text = "MIT" }
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 860310d..e79beb0 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ resolution-markers = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "actop"
-version = "1.9.3"
+version = "1.9.4"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "rich" },