diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fc035fdd..e45d9ce5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
 
 Tracks `CITATION.cff` files across public repositories on GitHub.
 
-## Current count: 2936
+## Current count: 2872
 
 ![A graph showing a timeline of file counts for CITATION.cff files across GitHub retrieved via GitHub search API.](cff_counts_clean.png)
 
diff --git a/cff_counts.csv b/cff_counts.csv
index 6dab06c8..85edac9f 100644
--- a/cff_counts.csv
+++ b/cff_counts.csv
@@ -1104,3 +1104,4 @@ date,count
 2024-07-30,2336
 2024-07-31,2760
 2024-08-02,2936
+2024-08-03,2872
diff --git a/current_count.txt b/current_count.txt
index 57340e1e..b2989f42 100644
--- a/current_count.txt
+++ b/current_count.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2936
\ No newline at end of file
+2872
\ No newline at end of file