diff --git a/.github/workflows/static.yml b/.github/workflows/static.yml
index c1e488cb..d5f6e4da 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/static.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/static.yml
@@ -30,14 +30,11 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Download validatornu
       # There isn't a package with a `validatornu` command in Ubuntu, so download the validator
-      # from the GitHub releases and change the validate-static script later to use it.
+      # from the GitHub releases and change the process-static script later to use it.
       run: curl -OL https://github.com/validator/validator/releases/download/${{ env.VALIDATOR_VERSION }}/vnu.linux.zip && unzip vnu.linux.zip
       if: steps.validator-cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
 
-    - run: sed -i 's+validatornu+vnu-runtime-image/bin/vnu+g' validate-static
-
-    - name: validate static
-      run: ./validate-static
+    - run: sed -i 's+validatornu+vnu-runtime-image/bin/vnu+g' process-static
 
     - name: process static
       run: ./process-static
diff --git a/deploy-static b/deploy-static
index 60d18fc7..d002acbd 100755
--- a/deploy-static
+++ b/deploy-static
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 set -o errexit -o nounset -o pipefail
 
-./validate-static
 ./process-static
 
 servers=(
diff --git a/process-static b/process-static
index 8a103e19..9f33578c 100755
--- a/process-static
+++ b/process-static
@@ -11,10 +11,14 @@ rm -rf static-tmp/js/fastboot/{!(dist),dist/!(fastboot.min.mjs|fastboot.min.mjs.
 mv static-tmp/js/fastboot/dist static-tmp/js/fastboot/v1.0.9
 
 for file in static-tmp/**/*.@(json|webmanifest); do
+    json_verify < "$file" >/dev/null
     json_reformat -m < "$file" | sponge "$file"
 done
 
+stylelint static-tmp/**/*.css
 find static-tmp -name '*.css' -exec csso {} -o {} \;
+
+eslint static-tmp/**/!(fastboot.min.m|z-worker-pako.|pako_inflate.min.|)js
 find static-tmp -name '*.js' -exec terser --ecma 2021 --module -cmo {} {} \;
 
 replace=""
@@ -28,6 +32,8 @@ done
 cp nginx/nginx.conf nginx.conf.tmp
 sed -i "$replace" static-tmp/**/*.html nginx.conf.tmp
 
+xmllint --noout static-tmp/**/*.html
+validatornu --Werror --also-check-css --also-check-svg static-tmp/**/!(bimi).@(css|html|svg)
 find static-tmp -name '*.html' -exec html-minifier --collapse-whitespace \
     --process-scripts "application/ld+json" --collapse-boolean-attributes \
     --remove-attribute-quotes --remove-comments --remove-empty-attributes \
diff --git a/validate-static b/validate-static
deleted file mode 100755
index 8776be99..00000000
--- a/validate-static
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-set -o errexit -o nounset -o pipefail
-shopt -s dotglob extglob globstar
-
-export PATH="$PWD/node_modules/.bin:$PATH"
-
-rm -rf static-tmp
-cp -a static static-tmp
-rm -rf static-tmp/js/fastboot/{!(dist),dist/!(fastboot.min.mjs|fastboot.min.mjs.map|vendor)}
-
-for file in static-tmp/**/*.@(json|webmanifest); do
-    json_verify < "$file" >/dev/null
-done
-
-xmllint --noout static-tmp/**/*.@(html|svg|xml)
-eslint static-tmp/**/!(fastboot.min.m|z-worker-pako.|pako_inflate.min.|)js
-stylelint static-tmp/**/*.css
-validatornu --Werror --also-check-css --also-check-svg static-tmp/**/!(bimi).@(css|html|svg)