diff --git a/backend/internal/latest/browser.go b/backend/internal/latest/browser.go
index 1227551..641b33a 100644
--- a/backend/internal/latest/browser.go
+++ b/backend/internal/latest/browser.go
@@ -93,10 +93,11 @@ func (f *BrowserFetcher) Close() {
 // which is what the entry's LatestChapter parse expects.
 func (f *BrowserFetcher) Get(ctx context.Context, seriesURL string) (string, int, error) {
 	var body string
-	for _, s := range sites {
-		if s.Browser == nil {
-			continue
-		}
+	// Sorted order (browserBackedSites sorts) makes dispatch deterministic:
+	// entries' Read funcs are expected to refuse any address owned by another
+	// Site, and the loop must not depend on that staying true.
+	for _, name := range browserBackedSites() {
+		s := sites[name]
 		read, ok := s.Browser.Read(seriesURL, &body)
 		if !ok {
 			continue
diff --git a/backend/internal/latest/poller.go b/backend/internal/latest/poller.go
index 26f34a5..cfbdea8 100644
--- a/backend/internal/latest/poller.go
+++ b/backend/internal/latest/poller.go
@@ -226,11 +226,16 @@ func (p *Poller) checkOne(ctx context.Context, sr store.Series) {
 			// passes the gate is retried at cooldown pace rather than
 			// hot-looping.
 			log.Printf("latest poll %q: not fetchable: site=%q url=%q", sr.Key(), sr.Site, sr.SeriesURL)
+			return
 		case errors.Is(err, errNoFetcher):
 			log.Printf("latest poll %q: no fetcher for site %q", sr.Key(), sr.Site)
-		default:
-			log.Printf("latest poll %q: %v", sr.Key(), err)
+			return
 		}
+		// A legacy cover heals independently of the page read: its source may
+		// answer — a CDN — while the origin does not, so a fetch failure does
+		// not skip the heal, matching the order the shared read replaced.
+		p.prefetchCover(ctx, sr)
+		log.Printf("latest poll %q: %v", sr.Key(), err)
 		return
 	}
 	// A legacy cover source is healed independently of the page read.
@@ -241,7 +246,7 @@ func (p *Poller) checkOne(ctx context.Context, sr store.Series) {
 	if !facts.HasLatest {
 		// Most likely a challenge page or a layout change. Either way the row is
 		// already stamped, so this waits out a cooldown instead of hot-looping.
-		log.Printf("latest poll %q: no chapter links", sr.Key())
+		log.Printf("latest poll %q: no chapter links in %d bytes", sr.Key(), facts.BodyLen)
 		return
 	}
 
diff --git a/backend/internal/latest/poller_test.go b/backend/internal/latest/poller_test.go
index 8b38fa0..d76a2b4 100644
--- a/backend/internal/latest/poller_test.go
+++ b/backend/internal/latest/poller_test.go
@@ -623,9 +623,9 @@ func TestFetchableSeriesURL(t *testing.T) {
 		{"demonic https", "demonic", "https://demonicscans.org/manga/X", true},
 		{"comix https", "comix", "https://comix.to/title/n8we-dungeons-and-crayons", true},
 		{"kagane on its own host", "kagane", "https://kagane.to/series/019f84bc-9ba0-7ed9-86f5-8b905ec7c28b", true},
-		// The pins added in #94 cover the three plain-TLS Sites too: a
-		// client-supplied series_url must not aim a fetcher at a lookalike
-		// host, even when the fetcher is only an HTTP GET.
+		// The three plain-TLS Sites are pinned too: a client-supplied
+		// series_url must not aim a fetcher at a lookalike host, even when
+		// the fetcher is only an HTTP GET.
 		{"asura on a foreign host", "asura", "https://asurascans.com.evil.example/comics/x", false},
 		{"asura on the dead old domain", "asura", "https://asuracomic.net/comics/x", false},
 		{"demonic on a lookalike host", "demonic", "https://demonicscans.org.evil.example/manga/X", false},
diff --git a/backend/internal/latest/read.go b/backend/internal/latest/read.go
index 4cba9cc..f830d8b 100644
--- a/backend/internal/latest/read.go
+++ b/backend/internal/latest/read.go
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ type seriesRead struct {
 	HasLatest bool
 	Cover     string
 	HasCover  bool
+	// BodyLen is the fetched body's length, surfaced because the no-chapter
+	// log uses it to tell a markup change from a body the size cap cut short.
+	BodyLen int
 }
 
 // errNotFetchable and errNoFetcher separate the gate and the route from fetch
@@ -51,5 +54,5 @@ func readSeriesPage(ctx context.Context, site, seriesURL string, browser, tls Fe
 	}
 	latest, hasLatest := latestChapterFrom(site, seriesURL, body)
 	cover, hasCover := coverFrom(site, seriesURL, body)
-	return seriesRead{Latest: latest, HasLatest: hasLatest, Cover: cover, HasCover: hasCover}, nil
+	return seriesRead{Latest: latest, HasLatest: hasLatest, Cover: cover, HasCover: hasCover, BodyLen: len(body)}, nil
 }
diff --git a/backend/internal/latest/sites.go b/backend/internal/latest/sites.go
index 702233f..2c6333b 100644
--- a/backend/internal/latest/sites.go
+++ b/backend/internal/latest/sites.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"log"
 	"net/url"
 	"regexp"
+	"sort"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -184,6 +185,9 @@ func comixLatestChapter(seriesURL, body string) (latestChapter, bool) {
 	return maxChapter(re, body)
 }
 
+// kaganeLatestChapter scans the kagane series API JSON that the browser read
+// fetched from inside the page; the match rides on the property name,
+// regardless of the surrounding JSON shape.
 func kaganeLatestChapter(_, body string) (latestChapter, bool) {
 	return maxChapter(kaganeChapterRe, body)
 }
@@ -419,7 +423,8 @@ var sites = map[string]site{
 
 // browserBackedSites is derived from the registry: the Sites whose pages are
 // read through the browser sidecar, which are also the ones granted the longer
-// cooldown.
+// cooldown. Sorted so callers that range it (the due query, the browser
+// fetcher's dispatch) see a stable order instead of map-iteration noise.
 func browserBackedSites() []string {
 	out := make([]string, 0, len(sites))
 	for name, s := range sites {
@@ -427,5 +432,6 @@ func browserBackedSites() []string {
 			out = append(out, name)
 		}
 	}
+	sort.Strings(out)
 	return out
 }
diff --git a/docs/adr/0009-a-site-answers-questions-its-own-way.md b/docs/adr/0009-a-site-answers-questions-its-own-way.md
index 972f45b..67ee847 100644
--- a/docs/adr/0009-a-site-answers-questions-its-own-way.md
+++ b/docs/adr/0009-a-site-answers-questions-its-own-way.md
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ Per-Site knowledge lives in one registry in `backend/internal/latest/sites.go`,
 keyed by the stored site string. An entry answers a fixed set of questions: the
 hostname a `series_url` must carry, how to find the Latest Chapter in a body,
 how to find the Cover address in a body, and — for a Site behind a JavaScript
-challenge — how to read its payload from a cleared tab and how to tell that the
-payload arrived.
+challenge — how to read its payload from a cleared tab, how to tell that the
+payload arrived, and whether the plain-TLS fetcher may take over when no
+browser is configured (`Fallback`; kagane never falls back, novelfull does,
+each on measured evidence).
 
 The question set does not grow to accommodate one Site. When a Site needs
 something the set cannot express, that Site gets an optional override and