diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index a85a93ca..c82073bd 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ before_script:
   # launch apache, MySQL and PHPUnit Selenium installers
   - ./tests/travis/apache_setup.sh
   - ./tests/travis/mysql_setup.sh
-  - mysql -u root -e "USE social_test; SHOW TABLES;"
+  - mysql -u root -e "USE social_test; SHOW TABLES;" | wc -l
   - cp ./config/config.test.php.dist config/config.test.php
   - cp ./config/config.test.php.dist config/config.local.php
   - sudo sed -i s/sql-mode/#sql-mode/ /etc/mysql/my.cnf
@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ before_script:
 
   # get HTML of main page (for debug)
   - firefox --version
-  - wget -O /tmp/livestreet.test http://livestreet.test
-  - cat /tmp/livestreet.test
+  - wget -S http://livestreet.test -O /dev/null
 
   # start virtual display
   - sh -e /etc/init.d/xvfb start