diff --git a/packages/cli/src/commands/layout-audit.browser.js b/packages/cli/src/commands/layout-audit.browser.js
index 4eb5184d92..a23fd31b45 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/commands/layout-audit.browser.js
+++ b/packages/cli/src/commands/layout-audit.browser.js
@@ -1426,7 +1426,8 @@
   };
 
   // Frozen-sweep guard (#U10, checkPipeline.ts): a compact per-sample
-  // fingerprint of every visible element's box + opacity, in DOM order. Node
+  // fingerprint of every visible element's identity + box + opacity, in DOM
+  // order. Node
   // calls this once per seeked grid point and compares the strings across the
   // whole run — if every sample produces the identical string, the seek never
   // actually moved anything and the whole audit run is unreliable. Deliberately
@@ -1472,7 +1473,7 @@
     const parts = elements.map((element) => {
       const rect = toRect(element.getBoundingClientRect());
       const opacity = round(opacityChain(element));
-      return `${rect.left},${rect.top},${rect.width},${rect.height},${opacity}`;
+      return `${uniqueSelectorFor(element)},${rect.left},${rect.top},${rect.width},${rect.height},${opacity}`;
     });
     for (const media of root.querySelectorAll("canvas, video")) {
       if (!isVisibleElement(media)) continue;
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/commands/layout-audit.browser.test.ts b/packages/cli/src/commands/layout-audit.browser.test.ts
index a7b36d2d36..51078fa473 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/commands/layout-audit.browser.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/commands/layout-audit.browser.test.ts
@@ -63,6 +63,56 @@ describe("layout-audit.browser", () => {
     expect(after).not.toBe(before);
   });
 
+  it.each([
+    ["ids", 'id="slice-a"', 'id="slice-b"'],
+    ["data layout names", 'data-layout-name="slice-a"', 'data-layout-name="slice-b"'],
+    ["shared classes", 'class="raster-slice"', 'class="raster-slice"'],
+    ["structural positions", "", ""],
+  ])(
+    "changes the sweep fingerprint when same-sized raster slices with %s swap visibility",
+    (_identity, firstAttributes, secondAttributes) => {
+      document.body.innerHTML = `
+      <div id="root" data-composition-id="main" data-width="640" data-height="360">
+        <img ${firstAttributes} alt="" style="opacity: 1" />
+        <img ${secondAttributes} alt="" style="opacity: 0" />
+      </div>
+    `;
+      const [firstSlice, secondSlice] = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("img")) as [
+        HTMLImageElement,
+        HTMLImageElement,
+      ];
+      const sliceRect = rect({ left: 80, top: 60, width: 480, height: 240 });
+      installGeometry({
+        root: rect({ left: 0, top: 0, width: 640, height: 360 }),
+        "slice-a": sliceRect,
+        "slice-b": sliceRect,
+        headline: sliceRect,
+        "": sliceRect,
+      });
+      const nativeGetComputedStyle = window.getComputedStyle.bind(window);
+      vi.spyOn(window, "getComputedStyle").mockImplementation((element) => {
+        const computed = nativeGetComputedStyle(element);
+        const inlineOpacity = (element as HTMLElement).style.opacity;
+        if (!inlineOpacity) return computed;
+        return new Proxy(computed, {
+          get(target, property, receiver) {
+            return property === "opacity" ? inlineOpacity : Reflect.get(target, property, receiver);
+          },
+        });
+      });
+
+      installAuditScript();
+      const collect = (window as unknown as { __hyperframesLayoutGeometry: () => string })
+        .__hyperframesLayoutGeometry;
+      const before = collect();
+      firstSlice.style.opacity = "0";
+      secondSlice.style.opacity = "1";
+      const after = collect();
+
+      expect(after).not.toBe(before);
+    },
+  );
+
   it("uses authored canvas dimensions when the root bounding rect is degenerate", () => {
     document.body.innerHTML = `
       <div id="root" data-composition-id="main" data-width="640" data-height="360">