diff --git a/src/Speckle.Sdk.Dependencies/Serialization/ChannelLoader.cs b/src/Speckle.Sdk.Dependencies/Serialization/ChannelLoader.cs
index e9d6e729..ccecd183 100644
--- a/src/Speckle.Sdk.Dependencies/Serialization/ChannelLoader.cs
+++ b/src/Speckle.Sdk.Dependencies/Serialization/ChannelLoader.cs
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ public abstract class ChannelLoader<T>
   private const int MAX_PARALLELISM_HTTP = 4;
   private static readonly TimeSpan HTTP_BATCH_TIMEOUT = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2);
   private static readonly int MAX_READ_CACHE_PARALLELISM = Environment.ProcessorCount;
-  private const int MAX_SAVE_CACHE_BATCH = 200;
-  private const int MAX_SAVE_CACHE_PARALLELISM = 1;
+  private const int MAX_SAVE_CACHE_BATCH = 500;
+  private const int MAX_SAVE_CACHE_PARALLELISM = 4;
 
   protected async Task GetAndCache(IEnumerable<string> allChildrenIds, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default) =>
     await allChildrenIds
diff --git a/src/Speckle.Sdk/Serialisation/V2/Receive/ObjectLoader.cs b/src/Speckle.Sdk/Serialisation/V2/Receive/ObjectLoader.cs
index 345190c5..b80a5b01 100644
--- a/src/Speckle.Sdk/Serialisation/V2/Receive/ObjectLoader.cs
+++ b/src/Speckle.Sdk/Serialisation/V2/Receive/ObjectLoader.cs
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ public sealed class ObjectLoader(
   private int? _allChildrenCount;
   private long _checkCache;
   private long _cached;
+  private long _downloaded;
+  private long _totalToDownload;
   private DeserializeProcessOptions _options = new(false);
 
   [AutoInterfaceIgnore]
@@ -72,6 +74,7 @@ CancellationToken cancellationToken
     progress?.Report(new(ProgressEvent.CacheCheck, _checkCache, _allChildrenCount));
     if (!_options.SkipCache && !sqLiteJsonCacheManager.HasObject(id))
     {
+      Interlocked.Increment(ref _totalToDownload);
       return id;
     }
 
@@ -86,6 +89,8 @@ public override async Task<List<BaseItem>> Download(List<string?> ids)
       var (id, json) in serverObjectManager.DownloadObjects(ids.Select(x => x.NotNull()).ToList(), progress, default)
     )
     {
+      Interlocked.Increment(ref _downloaded);
+      progress?.Report(new(ProgressEvent.DownloadObjects, _downloaded, _totalToDownload));
       toCache.Add(new(new(id), new(json), true, null));
     }
 
diff --git a/src/Speckle.Sdk/Serialisation/V2/Send/SerializeProcess.cs b/src/Speckle.Sdk/Serialisation/V2/Send/SerializeProcess.cs
index 242fc5a0..0713d9e1 100644
--- a/src/Speckle.Sdk/Serialisation/V2/Send/SerializeProcess.cs
+++ b/src/Speckle.Sdk/Serialisation/V2/Send/SerializeProcess.cs
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ public async Task<SerializeProcessResults> Serialize(Base root, CancellationToke
       );
     }
 
-    await Traverse(root, true, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+    await Traverse(root, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+    await Done().ConfigureAwait(true);
     await channelTask.ConfigureAwait(false);
     await findTotalObjectsTask.ConfigureAwait(false);
     return new(root.id.NotNull(), _objectReferences.Freeze());
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ private void TraverseTotal(Base obj)
     }
   }
 
-  private async Task<Dictionary<Id, NodeInfo>> Traverse(Base obj, bool isEnd, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
+  private async Task<Dictionary<Id, NodeInfo>> Traverse(Base obj, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   {
     var tasks = new List<Task<Dictionary<Id, NodeInfo>>>();
     foreach (var child in baseChildFinder.GetChildren(obj))
@@ -102,7 +103,7 @@ private async Task<Dictionary<Id, NodeInfo>> Traverse(Base obj, bool isEnd, Canc
       var tmp = child;
       var t = Task
         .Factory.StartNew(
-          () => Traverse(tmp, false, cancellationToken),
+          () => Traverse(tmp, cancellationToken),
           cancellationToken,
           TaskCreationOptions.AttachedToParent | TaskCreationOptions.PreferFairness,
           _belowNormal
@@ -145,12 +146,6 @@ private async Task<Dictionary<Id, NodeInfo>> Traverse(Base obj, bool isEnd, Canc
       }
     }
     _childClosurePool.Return(childClosures);
-
-    if (isEnd)
-    {
-      await Done().ConfigureAwait(true);
-    }
-
     return currentClosures;
   }
 
diff --git a/src/Speckle.Sdk/Transports/ProgressArgs.cs b/src/Speckle.Sdk/Transports/ProgressArgs.cs
index f0711b22..b7660374 100644
--- a/src/Speckle.Sdk/Transports/ProgressArgs.cs
+++ b/src/Speckle.Sdk/Transports/ProgressArgs.cs
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ public enum ProgressEvent
 
   CacheCheck,
   DownloadBytes,
+  DownloadObjects,
   DeserializeObject,
 
   SerializeObject, // old
diff --git a/tests/Speckle.Sdk.Tests.Integration/Credentials/UserServerInfoTests.cs b/tests/Speckle.Sdk.Tests.Integration/Credentials/UserServerInfoTests.cs
index fe621978..43a93be8 100644
--- a/tests/Speckle.Sdk.Tests.Integration/Credentials/UserServerInfoTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Speckle.Sdk.Tests.Integration/Credentials/UserServerInfoTests.cs
@@ -29,17 +29,6 @@ public async Task IsFrontEnd2True()
     result.frontend2.Should().BeTrue();
   }
 
-  [Fact]
-  public async Task IsFrontEnd2False()
-  {
-    ServerInfo? result = await Fixtures
-      .ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<IAccountManager>()
-      .GetServerInfo(new("https://speckle.xyz/"));
-
-    result.Should().NotBeNull();
-    result.frontend2.Should().BeFalse();
-  }
-
   /// <remarks>
   /// We get ServerInfo from "http://localhost:3000/graphql",
   /// Then we mutate the `frontend2` property of ServerInfo by trying to fetch header from "http://localhost:3000/",