dare.co.uk — content breadth + depth audit
DARE.CO.UK · CONTENT BREADTH AUDIT · 3 JUNE 2026
Pages audited: 697 · Sections: 33 · Pages without body image: 189
TL;DR
- Median body length: 59 words — the archive is fundamentally short-form.
- Content-class distribution: 227 stubs (<30 words), 272 brief (30-99), 180 medium (100-399), 18 long-form (400+).
- Pages without body image: 189 — split: 83 stubs + 69 brief + 35 medium + 2 long.
Content-class distribution
| Bucket | Count | % of total | % missing body image |
|---|---|---|---|
| stub | 227 | 33% | 37% (83/227) |
| brief | 272 | 39% | 25% (69/272) |
| medium | 180 | 26% | 19% (35/180) |
| long-form | 18 | 3% | 11% (2/18) |
Section distribution
| Section | Pages | Median words |
|---|---|---|
| observations | 213 | 52 |
| cinema | 85 | 64 |
| daring-acts | 66 | 61 |
| people | 45 | 76 |
| fine-arts | 44 | 28 |
| architecture | 43 | 71 |
| photography | 36 | 51 |
| future-media | 32 | 78 |
| industrial-design | 24 | 76 |
| new-york-city | 15 | 49 |
| albums | 14 | 43 |
| places | 14 | 45 |
| user-interface | 13 | 66 |
| books | 11 | 89 |
| brands | 7 | 54 |
Stubs without body image (n=83)
These are the 83 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 — 25 stub(s)
- cinema — 22 stub(s)
- albums — 5 stub(s)
- future-media — 4 stub(s)
- people — 3 stub(s)
- photography — 3 stub(s)
- psychology — 3 stub(s)
- books — 2 stub(s)
- daring-acts — 2 stub(s)
- fine-arts — 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)
- 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 2026-06-03 10:07:41 via dare_content_breadth_audit.py.