diff --git a/deploy_static b/deploy_static
index 10938f5e..5e2cd17b 100755
--- a/deploy_static
+++ b/deploy_static
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 
 set -o errexit
 
-remote=www-data@grapheneos.org
-active=$(ssh $remote readlink html)
-
 validatornu --Werror --skip-non-html static
 validatornu --Werror --skip-non-css static
 validatornu --Werror --skip-non-svg --no-langdetect static
 
+remote=www-data@grapheneos.org
+active=$(ssh $remote readlink html)
+
 if [[ $active = html_a ]]; then
     target=html_b
 else