diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
index ccac99e..726d660 100644
--- a/README.Rmd
+++ b/README.Rmd
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ set.seed(0)
 
 A highly scientific and utterly addictive bird point count simulator to test statistical assumptions and to aid survey design.
 
+[![CRAN version](http://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/bSims)](http://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/bSims/index.html)
+[![CRAN RStudio mirror downloads](http://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/grand-total/bSims)](https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/bSims/)
+
 [![Linux build status](https://travis-ci.org/psolymos/bSims.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/psolymos/bSims)
 [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/psolymos/bSims/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/psolymos/bSims)
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3e0f6f2..62da5a5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
 A highly scientific and utterly addictive bird point count simulator to
 test statistical assumptions and to aid survey design.
 
+[![CRAN
+version](http://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/bSims)](http://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/bSims/index.html)
+[![CRAN RStudio mirror
+downloads](http://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/grand-total/bSims)](https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/bSims/)
+
 [![Linux build
 status](https://travis-ci.org/psolymos/bSims.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/psolymos/bSims)
 [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/psolymos/bSims/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/psolymos/bSims)
@@ -158,21 +163,23 @@ nc <- 2 # number of cores
 ## sequential
 system.time(bb <- b$replicate(B, cl=NULL))
 #>    user  system elapsed 
-#>    0.40    0.02    0.42
+#>   0.789   0.014   0.829
 
 ## parallel clusters
 cl <- makeCluster(nc)
 ## note: loading the package is optional
 system.time(clusterEvalQ(cl, library(bSims)))
 #>    user  system elapsed 
-#>     0.0     0.0     0.7
+#>   0.001   0.001   1.347
 system.time(bb <- b$replicate(B, cl=cl))
 #>    user  system elapsed 
-#>    0.02    0.00    0.26
+#>   0.012   0.002   0.544
 stopCluster(cl)
 
 ## parallel forking
 if (.Platform$OS.type != "windows") {
   system.time(bb <- b$replicate(B, cl=nc))
 }
+#>    user  system elapsed 
+#>   0.449   0.117   0.583
 ```