diff --git a/benchmarks/README.md b/benchmarks/README.md
index e9de7ff..5d1afcd 100644
--- a/benchmarks/README.md
+++ b/benchmarks/README.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ The query times are relative to the following configuration:
 
 ### Space in bits/kmer
 
-| Dictionary |elegans ||| cod   ||| kesterl ||| human |||
+| Dictionary |elegans ||| cod   ||| kestrel ||| human |||
 |:------------------|:------:|:------:|:------:|:------:|:------:|:------:|:------:|:------:|:------:|:-----:|:-------:|:-----:|
 |                   | k=31 | k=47 | k=63 | k=31 | k=47 | k=63 | k=31 | k=47 | k=63 | k=31 | k=47 | k=63 |
 | SSHash, **regular**   | 5.86 | 4.29 | 3.51 | 7.84 | 5.17 | 4.26 | 7.53 | 4.67 | 3.76 | 8.70 | 5.65 | 4.64 |
diff --git a/external/pthash b/external/pthash
index 28aedcb..2ee455f 160000
--- a/external/pthash
+++ b/external/pthash
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 28aedcb03af096c0e9988b1ad240da7b4cf010d7
+Subproject commit 2ee455f7ce1cb3f1f99242b4ffdbe28ed72a7f7f
diff --git a/include/info.cpp b/include/info.cpp
index 71de6d4..c1fcee1 100644
--- a/include/info.cpp
+++ b/include/info.cpp
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ uint64_t skew_index::print_info() const {
 }
 
 void dictionary::print_space_breakdown() const {
-    std::cout << "total index size: " << essentials::convert((num_bits() + 7) / 8, essentials::MB)
-              << " [MB]" << '\n';
+    const uint64_t num_bytes = (num_bits() + 7) / 8;
+    std::cout << "total index size: " << num_bytes << " [B] -- "
+              << essentials::convert(num_bytes, essentials::MB) << " [MB]" << '\n';
     std::cout << "SPACE BREAKDOWN:\n";
     std::cout << "  minimizers: " << static_cast<double>(m_minimizers.num_bits()) / size()
               << " [bits/kmer]\n";
diff --git a/include/skew_index.hpp b/include/skew_index.hpp
index ca9b2ef..c1ff603 100644
--- a/include/skew_index.hpp
+++ b/include/skew_index.hpp
@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ struct skew_index {
 
     uint64_t num_bits() const {
         uint64_t n =
-            (sizeof(min_log2) + sizeof(max_log2) + sizeof(log2_max_num_super_kmers_in_bucket)) * 8;
+            (sizeof(min_log2) + sizeof(max_log2) + sizeof(log2_max_num_super_kmers_in_bucket) +
+             2 * sizeof(size_t) /* for std::vector::size */) *
+            8;
         for (uint64_t partition_id = 0; partition_id != mphfs.size(); ++partition_id) {
             auto const& mphf = mphfs[partition_id];
             auto const& P = positions[partition_id];
diff --git a/src/common.hpp b/src/common.hpp
index 301b330..b8d7ba3 100644
--- a/src/common.hpp
+++ b/src/common.hpp
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ void random_kmer(char* kmer, uint64_t k) {
 }
 
 void load_dictionary(dictionary& dict, std::string const& index_filename, bool verbose) {
-    uint64_t num_bytes_read = essentials::load(dict, index_filename.c_str());
+    const uint64_t num_bytes_read = essentials::load(dict, index_filename.c_str());
     if (verbose) {
-        std::cout << "index size: " << essentials::convert(num_bytes_read, essentials::MB)
-                  << " [MB] (" << (num_bytes_read * 8.0) / dict.size() << " [bits/kmer])"
-                  << std::endl;
+        std::cout << "total index size: " << num_bytes_read << " [B] -- "
+                  << essentials::convert(num_bytes_read, essentials::MB) << " [MB] ("
+                  << (num_bytes_read * 8.0) / dict.size() << " [bits/kmer])" << std::endl;
         dict.print_info();
     }
 }