dare.co.uk — content breadth + depth audit
DARE.CO.UK · CONTENT BREADTH AUDIT · 17 MAY 2026
Pages audited: 697 · Sections: 33 · Pages without body image: 253
TL;DR
- Median body length: 56 words — the archive is fundamentally short-form.
- Content-class distribution: 244 stubs (<30 words), 266 brief (30-99), 169 medium (100-399), 18 long-form (400+).
- Pages without body image: 253 — split: 104 stubs + 87 brief + 57 medium + 5 long.
Content-class distribution
| Bucket | Count | % of total | % missing body image |
|---|---|---|---|
| stub | 244 | 35% | 43% (104/244) |
| brief | 266 | 38% | 33% (87/266) |
| medium | 169 | 24% | 34% (57/169) |
| long-form | 18 | 3% | 28% (5/18) |
Section distribution
| Section | Pages | Median words |
|---|---|---|
| observations | 213 | 45 |
| cinema | 85 | 50 |
| daring-acts | 66 | 56 |
| people | 45 | 76 |
| fine-arts | 44 | 26 |
| architecture | 43 | 68 |
| photography | 36 | 37 |
| future-media | 32 | 74 |
| industrial-design | 24 | 76 |
| new-york-city | 15 | 49 |
| albums | 14 | 43 |
| places | 14 | 35 |
| user-interface | 13 | 66 |
| books | 11 | 89 |
| brands | 7 | 54 |
Stubs without body image (n=104)
These are the 104 pages that fall in BOTH the no-image-on-page (today’s SEO audit yellow) AND <30-word stub (intentionally short-form) buckets. They’re the cohort the creative-image-suggestion script would target.
Top 20 by section:
- observations — 31 stub(s)
- cinema — 27 stub(s)
- photography — 7 stub(s)
- albums — 5 stub(s)
- daring-acts — 5 stub(s)
- fine-arts — 4 stub(s)
- future-media — 4 stub(s)
- people — 3 stub(s)
- psychology — 3 stub(s)
- books — 2 stub(s)
- industrial-design — 2 stub(s)
- about — 1 stub(s)
- architecture — 1 stub(s)
- brands — 1 stub(s)
- culture-means-thriving-teams — 1 stub(s)
- fields-notes-from-business-design — 1 stub(s)
- methods-of-business-design — 1 stub(s)
- narrative — 1 stub(s)
- places — 1 stub(s)
- templates — 1 stub(s)
- user-interface — 1 stub(s)
- writing — 1 stub(s)
What this tells us
- The archive is fundamentally short-form. The median page is ~44 words. This isn’t a content gap — it’s the register of the site (one-thought captures, observations, link posts).
- The content-quality framework should bucket by class FIRST, then evaluate. A stub-class page held to long-form EVIDENCE / LATERAL / CARRY-AWAY standards is the wrong test.
- The 253 pages SEO flagged for missing body image are mostly stubs (74% under 100 words). They don’t need images forced on them; they need to be recognised as a content-type.
What’s next
- Update
project_content_quality_framework_parked.mdwith these findings — the framework’s quality bar shifts per content-class. - Phase 2 (suggest) candidates: for medium-class pages (55 of 253) missing a body image, an image suggestion adds more value than for stubs.
- Tripwire: registered in
dare_daily_hygiene.pyso the breadth profile re-runs daily; new pages get classed automatically.
Generated 2026-05-17 17:52:19 via dare_content_breadth_audit.py.