diff --git a/build/entries/bundled.js b/build/entries/bundled.js
index 59b49b6..240facd 100644
--- a/build/entries/bundled.js
+++ b/build/entries/bundled.js
@@ -2,14 +2,23 @@
  * UMD entry point for `bundled.js` — same as `es5.js`, but with the polyfills
  * needed by the browser targets baked in.
  *
- * `core-js/stable` + `regenerator-runtime/runtime` is the core-js@3 equivalent
- * of the deprecated `@babel/polyfill` that this bundle used to be built from.
- * `@babel/preset-env`'s `useBuiltIns: 'entry'` rewrites the `core-js/stable`
- * import below into just the polyfills the configured targets actually need.
+ * This is the core-js@3 equivalent of the deprecated `@babel/polyfill` that
+ * this bundle used to be built from, which was: all of ECMAScript, the
+ * `timers`, `immediate` and DOM-collection iterator web polyfills, and
+ * `regenerator-runtime`. `@babel/preset-env`'s `useBuiltIns: 'entry'` rewrites
+ * the `core-js/*` imports below into the modules the configured targets need.
+ *
+ * `core-js/es` rather than `core-js/stable`: `stable` is `es` plus every web
+ * polyfill, and the extra ones — `URL`, `URLSearchParams`, `queueMicrotask` —
+ * were never in any released `bundled.js`, yet cost ~20 kB (~7 kB gzipped).
+ * `test/acceptance/test-es5-runtime.js` pins the `@babel/polyfill` surface.
  *
  * See `./es5.js` for why this only re-exports the default.
  */
-import 'core-js/stable';
+import 'core-js/es';
+import 'core-js/web/dom-collections';
+import 'core-js/web/immediate';
+import 'core-js/web/timers';
 import 'regenerator-runtime/runtime';
 import Bowser from '../../src/bowser.js';
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0e142a0..83b4722 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@
   "browser": "es5.js",
   "module": "src/bowser.js",
   "types": "index.d.ts",
+  "sideEffects": [
+    "./bundled.js"
+  ],
   "exports": {
     ".": {
       "import": {
@@ -75,7 +78,8 @@
     "./README.md": "./README.md",
     "./index.d.ts": "./index.d.ts",
     "./index.d.mts": "./index.d.mts",
-    "./package.json": "./package.json"
+    "./package.json": "./package.json",
+    "./package": "./package.json"
   },
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/test/acceptance/test-es5-conformance.js b/test/acceptance/test-es5-conformance.js
index a5266c3..18084ea 100644
--- a/test/acceptance/test-es5-conformance.js
+++ b/test/acceptance/test-es5-conformance.js
@@ -44,7 +44,19 @@ legacyBundles.forEach((file) => {
   });
 });
 
-test('bowser.mjs is a valid ES module', (t) => {
+/**
+ * `bowser.mjs` is what `import 'bowser'` resolves to in every bundler that
+ * reads the exports map. Before the map existed those same bundlers read the
+ * `browser` field and got `es5.js`, so ES5 builds — esbuild `--target=es5`,
+ * webpack without transpiling node_modules — depend on this file being ES5
+ * too. acorn's ES5 grammar in module mode accepts `import`/`export` and
+ * nothing else from ES2015, which is exactly the contract.
+ */
+test('bowser.mjs parses as ES5 apart from its export statement', (t) => {
   const source = fs.readFileSync(path.join(root, 'bowser.mjs'), 'utf8');
-  t.notThrows(() => acorn.parse(source, { ecmaVersion: 'latest', sourceType: 'module' }));
+  t.notThrows(
+    () => acorn.parse(source, { ecmaVersion: 5, sourceType: 'module' }),
+    'bowser.mjs contains syntax newer than ES5 — ES5 bundler targets will '
+    + 'fail to build or ship it untranspiled',
+  );
 });
diff --git a/test/acceptance/test-es5-runtime.js b/test/acceptance/test-es5-runtime.js
index 00d42aa..8723df8 100644
--- a/test/acceptance/test-es5-runtime.js
+++ b/test/acceptance/test-es5-runtime.js
@@ -131,3 +131,51 @@ test('bundled.js installs the polyfills it promises', (t) => {
   t.is(vm.runInContext('typeof Object.assign', context), 'function');
   t.is(vm.runInContext('typeof [].includes', context), 'function');
 });
+
+/**
+ * What every released `bundled.js` installed, back when it was built from
+ * `@babel/polyfill`: ES2015, the handful of ES2016/2017 additions that package
+ * pulled in individually, the `timers`/`immediate`/DOM-iterable web polyfills,
+ * and `regenerator-runtime`. `build/entries/bundled.js` picks its core-js
+ * entries to stay a superset of this; trimming them must not break it.
+ *
+ * Representative rather than exhaustive — one or more members per polyfill
+ * group, so that dropping any group fails here.
+ */
+const BABEL_POLYFILL_SURFACE = [
+  'this.Promise', 'Promise.prototype.finally', 'this.Symbol', 'Symbol.iterator', 'Symbol.asyncIterator',
+  'this.Map', 'this.Set', 'this.WeakMap', 'this.WeakSet', 'this.Reflect', 'Reflect.ownKeys',
+  'Object.assign', 'Object.is', 'Object.setPrototypeOf', 'Object.getOwnPropertySymbols',
+  'Object.entries', 'Object.values', 'Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptors',
+  'Array.from', 'Array.of', 'Array.prototype.includes', 'Array.prototype.find', 'Array.prototype.findIndex',
+  'Array.prototype.fill', 'Array.prototype.copyWithin', 'Array.prototype.flatMap',
+  'Array.prototype.entries', 'Array.prototype.keys', 'Array.prototype.values',
+  'String.raw', 'String.fromCodePoint', 'String.prototype.includes', 'String.prototype.startsWith',
+  'String.prototype.endsWith', 'String.prototype.repeat', 'String.prototype.codePointAt',
+  'String.prototype.padStart', 'String.prototype.padEnd', 'String.prototype.trimStart', 'String.prototype.trimEnd',
+  // Not `Number.EPSILON`: it is non-configurable, so the sandbox cannot strip it.
+  'Number.isInteger', 'Number.isFinite', 'Number.isNaN', 'Number.isSafeInteger', 'Number.parseInt',
+  'Math.trunc', 'Math.sign', 'Math.log2', 'Math.clz32', 'Math.hypot',
+  'this.setImmediate', 'this.clearImmediate', 'this.regeneratorRuntime',
+  // core-js 2 made DOM collections iterable; `forEach` on them is core-js 3.
+  'NodeList.prototype[Symbol.iterator]',
+];
+
+test('bundled.js still installs everything @babel/polyfill did', (t) => {
+  const context = createEs5Context();
+  // Strip whatever on the list the ES5 sandbox left in place, and give core-js
+  // a DOM collection to patch, so the check cannot pass against Node's own
+  // implementations.
+  vm.runInContext(BABEL_POLYFILL_SURFACE
+    .filter((ref) => /^[\w.]+$/.test(ref))
+    .map((ref) => `try { delete ${ref}; } catch (e) {}`)
+    .join('\n'), context);
+  vm.runInContext('this.NodeList = function NodeList() {};', context);
+  const present = (ref) => {
+    try { return vm.runInContext(`typeof (${ref})`, context) !== 'undefined'; } catch (e) { return false; }
+  };
+
+  t.deepEqual(BABEL_POLYFILL_SURFACE.filter(present), [], 'the sandbox did not strip these');
+  vm.runInContext(fs.readFileSync(path.join(root, 'bundled.js'), 'utf8'), context);
+  t.deepEqual(BABEL_POLYFILL_SURFACE.filter((ref) => !present(ref)), [], 'bundled.js no longer installs these');
+});
diff --git a/test/package/assertions.cjs b/test/package/assertions.cjs
index f3f86b4..6e71762 100644
--- a/test/package/assertions.cjs
+++ b/test/package/assertions.cjs
@@ -101,6 +101,12 @@ check('require.resolve("bowser/package.json") works', function () {
   assert.ok(fs.existsSync(require.resolve('bowser/package.json')));
 });
 
+// Extensionless, like `bowser/es5` — CommonJS resolution appended `.json`
+// before the exports map existed.
+check('require("bowser/package") works', function () {
+  assert.strictEqual(require('bowser/package').name, 'bowser');
+});
+
 // Before the exports map existed, *every* published file was reachable by
 // subpath. An exports map is a closed list, so anything published but not
 // enumerated silently becomes ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED. These four are
@@ -124,6 +130,14 @@ check('main/browser/module/types fields are unchanged', function () {
   assert.strictEqual(pkg.types, 'index.d.ts');
 });
 
+// Lets esbuild and Vite drop an unused `import 'bowser'` (webpack and Rollup
+// already do). `bundled.js` is the one file whose import *is* the point: it
+// installs polyfills, so it must never be tree-shaken away.
+check('"sideEffects" lists exactly bundled.js', function () {
+  var pkg = require('bowser/package.json');
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(pkg.sideEffects, ['./bundled.js']);
+});
+
 check('no "engines" field (would warn/fail installs on old Node)', function () {
   var pkg = require('bowser/package.json');
   assert.strictEqual(pkg.engines, undefined);
diff --git a/tsdown.config.ts b/tsdown.config.ts
index 7a5a469..90b8674 100644
--- a/tsdown.config.ts
+++ b/tsdown.config.ts
@@ -21,19 +21,16 @@ const legacyTargets = {
 };
 
 /**
- * `useBuiltIns: false` for `es5.js` (syntax transpilation only) and `'entry'`
- * for `bundled.js`, which expands the `core-js/stable` import in its entry.
- *
- * `'entry'` is why `bundled.js` grew from 124 kB to 174 kB when it stopped
- * being built from the deprecated `@babel/polyfill`. That package was core-js
- * **2**; `core-js/stable` is core-js **3**, whose stable surface is genuinely
- * larger — `globalThis`, `Object.fromEntries` and `URLSearchParams` are all
- * new here. The extra weight is the upgrade, not waste.
+ * `useBuiltIns: false` for `es5.js` and `bowser.mjs` (syntax transpilation
+ * only) and `'entry'` for `bundled.js`, which expands the `core-js/*` imports in
+ * its entry. `corejs: '3'` means 3.0, so `'entry'` only ever expands to modules
+ * that existed in core-js 3.0 — no later additions leak in.
  *
  * Switching to `useBuiltIns: 'usage'` would shrink the bundle a long way, and
  * would be wrong: the README tells consumers to reach for `bundled.js`
  * precisely when they have no polyfills of their own, so it has to keep
- * shipping the full payload rather than only what bowser itself calls.
+ * shipping the full payload rather than only what bowser itself calls. See
+ * `build/entries/bundled.js` for what that payload is.
  */
 const legacyBabel = (useBuiltIns: false | 'entry') => babel({
   presets: [['@babel/preset-env', {
@@ -64,15 +61,17 @@ const legacyBabel = (useBuiltIns: false | 'entry') => babel({
  *
  * `useBuiltIns: false` here on purpose: `bundled.js` already has its polyfills
  * inlined by the input pass, and re-expanding them would recurse.
+ *
+ * `sourceType` is `'script'` for the UMD IIFEs and `'module'` for
+ * `bowser.mjs`, whose `export` statement must survive untouched.
  */
-const lowerChunkToEs5 = () => ({
+const lowerChunkToEs5 = (sourceType: 'script' | 'module' = 'script') => ({
   name: 'bowser:babel-output',
   async renderChunk(code: string, chunk: { fileName: string }) {
     const result = await transformAsync(code, {
       babelrc: false,
       configFile: false,
-      // The emitted chunk is a UMD IIFE, i.e. a script, not a module.
-      sourceType: 'script',
+      sourceType,
       // core-js is large and already ES5; skipping its size guard keeps babel
       // from silently bailing out of compiling `bundled.js`.
       compact: false,
@@ -149,14 +148,24 @@ export default defineConfig([
   umd('es5', 'build/entries/es5.js', false),
   umd('bundled', 'build/entries/bundled.js', 'entry'),
   {
-    // Modern ESM build. Reached via the `import` condition of the exports map.
-    // Deliberately not run through babel: `module` still points at the raw
-    // `src/bowser.js`, so this must not be *more* conservative than that.
+    // ESM build, reached via the `import` condition of the exports map.
+    //
+    // Lowered to ES5 syntax like the UMD bundles, keeping only `export`. Before
+    // the exports map existed, webpack, Rollup (`browser: true`) and esbuild all
+    // picked the `browser` field — `es5.js` — for `import 'bowser'`, not
+    // `module`. Shipping ES2015 here would make esbuild `--target=es5` fail
+    // outright, and ship classes into ES5 builds from webpack, which does not
+    // transpile node_modules by default.
     entry: { bowser: 'src/bowser.js' },
     format: ['esm'],
     outDir: '.',
     outExtensions: () => ({ js: '.mjs' }),
     platform: 'browser',
+    plugins: [legacyBabel(false), lowerChunkToEs5('module')],
+    // Must be explicit. Left unset, rolldown still re-prints the chunk *after*
+    // `renderChunk` (dead-code-elimination-only minify), and its printer turns
+    // `{ version: version }` back into the ES2015 shorthand `{ version }`.
+    minify: false,
     banner,
     dts: false,
     clean: false,