diff --git a/README-ADMINS.md b/README-ADMINS.md
index 84d90c0..c8112a3 100644
--- a/README-ADMINS.md
+++ b/README-ADMINS.md
@@ -59,13 +59,16 @@ Try `speedscope sample/profiles/stackcollapse/simple.txt`, which should immediat
 
 ## Deploying the website
 
+This step must follow the "Publish to npm" step, since it uses assets from
+the npm publish.
+
 https://www.speedscope.app/ is hosted on GitHub pages, and is published via pushing
 to the `gh-pages` branch. The `gh-pages` branch has totally different contents than
 other branches of this repository: https://github.com/jlfwong/speedscope/tree/gh-pages.
 
-It's populated by a deploy script which is invoked by running `npm run deploy` script.
-This will do a build of the static resources, and boot a local server for you to test
-the compiled assets. Please do not skip the manual testing in this step.
+It's populated by a deploy script which is invoked by running `npm run deploy` script. This populate a directory with assets pulled from npm, and
+boot a local server for you to test the compiled assets. Please do not skip
+the manual testing in this step.
 
 If everything looks good, you should be able to hit Ctrl+C, and you should see this prompt:
 
@@ -80,8 +83,10 @@ which includes the version, the date, and the commit of the deploy.
 
 ## Upload a release to GitHub
 
-To make a zipfile suitable for uploading to GitHub as a release, run `scripts/prepare-zip-file.sh`. Note that this step must follow the "Publish to npm" step,
-since it uses assets from the npm publish.
+This step must follow the "Publish to npm" step, since it uses assets from
+the npm publish.
+
+To make a zipfile suitable for uploading to GitHub as a release, run `scripts/prepare-zip-file.sh`.
 
 Once that's done, you should have a zip file in `dist/release/`
 
diff --git a/scripts/deploy.sh b/scripts/deploy.sh
index 535310b..f5721f0 100755
--- a/scripts/deploy.sh
+++ b/scripts/deploy.sh
@@ -1,26 +1,28 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #
-# type check, do a release build, then do a shallow clone of the
-# repository into a temporary directory and copy the release build
-# artifacts into there to commit & push to the gh-pages branch
+# Do a shallow clone of the repository into a temporary directory and copy the
+# artifacts pulled from npm into the shallow clone to commit & push to the
+# gh-pages branch.
 
 set -euxo pipefail
 
-OUTDIR=`pwd`/dist/release
-echo $OUTDIR
+SRCDIR=`pwd`
+OUTDIR=`mktemp -d -t speedscope-unpacked`
 
-./scripts/build-release.sh
+# Untar the package
+pushd "$OUTDIR"
+PACKEDNAME=`npm pack speedscope | tail -n1`
+tar -xvvf "$PACKEDNAME"
 
 # Create a shallow clone of the repository
-TMPDIR=`mktemp -d -t speedscope-release`
-echo "Entering $TMPDIR"
+TMPDIR=`mktemp -d -t speedscope-deploy`
 pushd "$TMPDIR"
 git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:jlfwong/speedscope.git -b gh-pages
 
 # Copy the build artifacts into the shallow clone
 pushd speedscope
 rm -rf *
-cp -R "$OUTDIR"/* .
+cp -R "$OUTDIR"/package/dist/release/** .
 
 # Set the CNAME record
 echo www.speedscope.app > CNAME
@@ -35,17 +37,14 @@ function ctrl_c() {
   if [[ $REPLY =~ ^yes$ ]]
   then
     git add --all
-    git commit -m 'Release'
+    git commit -m "Deploy $PACKEDNAME"
     git push origin HEAD:gh-pages
-    popd
     rm -rf "$TMPDIR"
     exit 0
   else
     set +x
     echo "Aborting release."
     set -x
-
-    popd
     rm -rf "$TMPDIR"
     exit 1
   fi
diff --git a/scripts/prepare-zip-file.sh b/scripts/prepare-zip-file.sh
index 24f6c3a..2746296 100755
--- a/scripts/prepare-zip-file.sh
+++ b/scripts/prepare-zip-file.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# Prepare a mock installation of speedscope to test it before the actual npm
-# publish
+# Create a zip file containing a standalone copy of speedscope
+# based on the contents of the package published to npm
 
 set -euxo pipefail