diff --git a/web/src/lib/components/custom-query.svelte b/web/src/lib/components/custom-query.svelte
index 22d0732..d18df0b 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/components/custom-query.svelte
+++ b/web/src/lib/components/custom-query.svelte
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <script lang="ts">
-  import { isBudgetError, type RemoteDatabase } from "$lib/sqlite.svelte";
+  import { formatBytes, isBudgetError, type RemoteDatabase } from "$lib/sqlite.svelte";
   import type { PresetGroup } from "$lib/types";
 
   const MAX_ROWS = 1000;
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
     running = true;
     const start = performance.now();
     try {
-      const result = await source.query<Record<string, unknown>>(finalSql);
+      const result = await source.query<Record<string, unknown>>(finalSql, [], "SQL tab");
       execTime = (performance.now() - start).toFixed(1);
       rows = result.slice(0, MAX_ROWS);
       columns = rows.length > 0 ? Object.keys(rows[0]) : [];
@@ -81,9 +81,6 @@
     runPreset(schemaPreset.sql);
   });
 
-  function formatBytes(n: number): string {
-    return n < 1024 * 1024 ? `${Math.round(n / 1024)} KB` : `${(n / 1048576).toFixed(1)} MB`;
-  }
 </script>
 
 <div class="mx-auto max-w-[900px]">
@@ -133,9 +130,12 @@
       {#if execTime !== null}
         <span class="text-sm text-ink-muted">{rows.length} kết quả · {execTime}ms</span>
       {/if}
-      {#if db}
-        <!-- What this session has actually pulled over the network. -->
-        <span class="text-sm text-ink-subtle">Đã tải: {formatBytes(db.bytesRead)}</span>
+      {#if db?.lastCost}
+        <!-- What this query cost, then what the session has cost so far. -->
+        <span class="text-sm text-ink-subtle">
+          Truy vấn này: {db.lastCost.requests} yêu cầu · {formatBytes(db.lastCost.bytes)}
+          · Phiên: {db.requests} yêu cầu · {formatBytes(db.bytesRead)}
+        </span>
       {/if}
     </div>
   </form>
diff --git a/web/src/lib/search.ts b/web/src/lib/search.ts
index 76d780b..b40cf03 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/search.ts
+++ b/web/src/lib/search.ts
@@ -38,15 +38,20 @@ export async function searchByName(db: RemoteDatabase, query: string): Promise<S
     WHERE w.word >= ? AND w.word < ?${filters.length ? " AND " + filters.join(" AND ") : ""}
     LIMIT ${MAX_RESULTS}`;
 
-  return db.query<Student>(sql, [seek, upperBound(seek), ...others.map((w) => `% ${escapeLike(w)}%`)]);
+  return db.query<Student>(
+    sql,
+    [seek, upperBound(seek), ...others.map((w) => `% ${escapeLike(w)}%`)],
+    `name ${JSON.stringify(words.join(" "))} seeking ${JSON.stringify(seek)}`,
+  );
 }
 
 /** Exact lookup by exam number: a primary-key seek, a few pages. */
 export async function lookupExamId(db: RemoteDatabase, id: string): Promise<Student[]> {
-  return db.query<Student>("SELECT * FROM student WHERE so_bao_danh = ? LIMIT ?", [
-    normaliseExamId(id),
-    MAX_RESULTS,
-  ]);
+  return db.query<Student>(
+    "SELECT * FROM student WHERE so_bao_danh = ? LIMIT ?",
+    [normaliseExamId(id), MAX_RESULTS],
+    `exam id ${JSON.stringify(normaliseExamId(id))}`,
+  );
 }
 
 /** Fold to ASCII and split into words, the same shape name_word was built in. */
@@ -66,7 +71,7 @@ async function rarest(db: RemoteDatabase, words: string[]): Promise<string> {
     .join(" UNION ALL ");
   const params = words.flatMap((w) => [w, w, upperBound(w)]);
 
-  const counts = await db.query<{ word: string; n: number }>(sql, params);
+  const counts = await db.query<{ word: string; n: number }>(sql, params, "word frequencies");
   let best = words[0];
   let bestN = Infinity;
   for (const { word, n } of counts) {
diff --git a/web/src/lib/sqlite.svelte.ts b/web/src/lib/sqlite.svelte.ts
index 5ef0f2f..f8e33d5 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/sqlite.svelte.ts
+++ b/web/src/lib/sqlite.svelte.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { createDbWorker, type WorkerHttpvfs } from "sql.js-httpvfs";
+import { createDbWorker, type SqliteStats, type WorkerHttpvfs } from "sql.js-httpvfs";
 import workerUrl from "sql.js-httpvfs/dist/sqlite.worker.js?url";
 import wasmUrl from "sql.js-httpvfs/dist/sql-wasm.wasm?url";
 
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ export const SEARCH_BUDGET_BYTES = 25 * 1024 * 1024;
 /** What the SQL tab gets once the user has accepted the cost of a scan. */
 export const PLAYGROUND_BUDGET_BYTES = 250 * 1024 * 1024;
 
+/** What one query cost over the network. */
+export type QueryCost = { requests: number; bytes: number; ms: number };
+
 /**
  * One remotely-paged database, with the load state the UI needs.
  *
@@ -35,12 +38,18 @@ export const PLAYGROUND_BUDGET_BYTES = 250 * 1024 * 1024;
 export class RemoteDatabase {
   ready = $state(false);
   error = $state<string | null>(null);
-  /** Bytes fetched so far, refreshed after every query. */
+  /** Bytes fetched by this database so far, prefetch included. */
   bytesRead = $state(0);
+  /** HTTP range requests issued so far. */
+  requests = $state(0);
+  /** What the most recent query cost on its own. */
+  lastCost = $state<QueryCost | null>(null);
 
   #worker: WorkerHttpvfs | null = null;
   #opening: Promise<WorkerHttpvfs>;
   #closed = false;
+  // Previous cumulative reading, so a query's own cost is a subtraction.
+  #seen = { requests: 0, bytes: 0 };
 
   constructor(
     readonly url: string,
@@ -50,6 +59,7 @@ export class RemoteDatabase {
   }
 
   async #open(): Promise<WorkerHttpvfs> {
+    const opened = performance.now();
     try {
       const worker = await createDbWorker(
         [{ from: "inline", config: { serverMode: "full", url: this.url, requestChunkSize: CHUNK_BYTES } }],
@@ -60,6 +70,9 @@ export class RemoteDatabase {
       if (this.#closed) throw new Error("closed");
       this.#worker = worker;
       this.ready = true;
+      // Opening is not free either: the header and schema pages are read before
+      // any query runs, and that shows up in every later session total.
+      await this.#account(worker, `open ${this.url}`, performance.now() - opened);
       return worker;
     } catch (err) {
       if (!this.#closed) {
@@ -70,21 +83,55 @@ export class RemoteDatabase {
     }
   }
 
-  /** Run a query and return its rows as objects. */
-  async query<T>(sql: string, params: unknown[] = []): Promise<T[]> {
+  /**
+   * Run a query and return its rows as objects.
+   *
+   * `label` names the query in the console trace — the only way to see what a
+   * search actually costs, since the byte count depends on how much the read
+   * heads prefetched, not just on the pages the plan needed.
+   */
+  async query<T>(sql: string, params: unknown[] = [], label?: string): Promise<T[]> {
     const worker = this.#worker ?? (await this.#opening);
     // Comlink erases the generic when it proxies the method across the worker
     // boundary, so the row type is asserted here rather than inferred.
     const run = worker.db.query as unknown as (sql: string, ...params: unknown[]) => Promise<T[]>;
+    const started = performance.now();
     try {
       return await run(sql, ...params);
     } finally {
-      // Comlink proxies the property, so this is a round trip; worth it because
-      // the number is the only honest feedback about what a query cost.
-      this.bytesRead = await worker.worker.bytesRead;
+      await this.#account(worker, label ?? firstLine(sql), performance.now() - started);
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Read the cumulative counters and report the delta.
+   *
+   * getStats() rather than the worker's `bytesRead`: that one is the budget
+   * counter and resets itself to zero when a query trips the ceiling, so it
+   * would under-report exactly when the number matters most.
+   */
+  async #account(worker: WorkerHttpvfs, label: string, ms: number) {
+    const read = worker.worker.getStats as unknown as () => Promise<SqliteStats | null>;
+    const stats = await read().catch(() => null);
+    if (!stats) return;
+
+    const cost: QueryCost = {
+      requests: stats.totalRequests - this.#seen.requests,
+      bytes: stats.totalFetchedBytes - this.#seen.bytes,
+      ms,
+    };
+    this.#seen = { requests: stats.totalRequests, bytes: stats.totalFetchedBytes };
+    this.requests = stats.totalRequests;
+    this.bytesRead = stats.totalFetchedBytes;
+    this.lastCost = cost;
+
+    console.info(
+      `[httpvfs] ${label} — ${cost.requests} request(s), ${formatBytes(cost.bytes)}, ${ms.toFixed(0)} ms` +
+        ` · session ${stats.totalRequests} request(s), ${formatBytes(stats.totalFetchedBytes)}` +
+        ` of ${formatBytes(stats.totalBytes)}`,
+    );
+  }
+
   /**
    * Drop this database. createDbWorker owns the Worker and exposes no handle to
    * it, so the thread outlives this call; a page creates at most one per
@@ -106,3 +153,13 @@ export function isBudgetError(err: unknown): boolean {
 function message(err: unknown): string {
   return err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
 }
+
+/** Enough of a query to recognise it in the console. */
+function firstLine(sql: string): string {
+  const line = sql.trim().split("\n")[0];
+  return line.length > 70 ? `${line.slice(0, 70)}…` : line;
+}
+
+export function formatBytes(n: number): string {
+  return n < 1024 * 1024 ? `${Math.round(n / 1024)} KB` : `${(n / 1048576).toFixed(1)} MB`;
+}