dare.co.uk — content breadth + depth audit

DARE.CO.UK · CONTENT BREADTH AUDIT · 18 MAY 2026

Pages audited: 697 · Sections: 33 · Pages without body image: 252

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: 252 — split: 104 stubs + 87 brief + 56 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%	33% (56/169)
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.md with 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.py so the breadth profile re-runs daily; new pages get classed automatically.

Generated 2026-05-18 08:30:54 via dare_content_breadth_audit.py.

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