diff --git a/utils/compress-strings.shs b/utils/compress-strings.shs
index e12d4e8fec..9cad3741a7 100644
--- a/utils/compress-strings.shs
+++ b/utils/compress-strings.shs
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ; this script works only in a debug build
 
+Msg("Compressing strings...")
+
 @wire(document-shard {
   Shards.Help ; don't do anything, we just want to create internally the shard to populate strings
 })