dare.co.uk — dashboard thumbnails audit
DARE.CO.UK · DASHBOARD THUMBNAILS AUDIT · 6 JUNE 2026
Catches deploy drift where the LIVE dash.dare.co.uk page lacks inline thumb-pop spans even though the local pre-deploy build has them. Hover-preview UX silently dies when this drift happens.
Live URL: https://dash.dare.co.uk/
Local source: /Users/dansellars/Downloads/dare_dashboard.html
At a glance
| Metric | Local pre-deploy | Live deployed | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| HTML size (chars) | 2,508,623 | 308,823 | -2,199,800 |
| Inline thumb-pop spans | 114 | 0 | -114 |
| Inline data:image URIs | 114 | 0 | -114 |
| Anchors with link-with-thumb class | 186 | 186 | +0 |
❌ Verdict — RED
Live has 0/114 thumb-pop spans (0% of local) — production lost the thumbnail payload. Likely cause: a deploy ran dare_cf_analytics.py --html WITHOUT --thumbs, or an ad-hoc deploy overwrote a healthy build with a thumbless one.
What to do
- Re-run a clean dashboard refresh to overwrite the broken deployment:
STASH5
- Confirm the build chain uses
--thumbs. Any direct call todare_cf_analytics.py --htmlWITHOUT--thumbswill produce a thumbless HTML and, if deployed, overwrite the good production build. - Check the CDN, security layer, and DNS provider sitting in front of dare.co.uk." data-tip="Cloudflare — the CDN, security layer, and DNS provider sitting in front of dare.co.uk.">CF Pages deployment list for ad-hoc deploys that didn’t come from
dare_dashboard_refresh.sh:
CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN=$(op read 'op://Code Shared/Cloudflare gf.cx full access/credential') \
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN" \
"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/2366f43fb08cc98065551599ad8e6e63/pages/projects/dare-dashboard/deployments?per_page=10" \
| python3 -m json.tool
Why this check exists
- Incident 2026-06-05: an ad-hoc deploy of
dare-dashboardoverwrote a healthy build (113 thumb-pop spans, 113 inline data:image URIs, 2.4 MB) with a thumbless one (13 spans, 0 URIs, 303 KB). The dashboard still rendered correctly in every other way — only the hover-preview thumbnails went missing. Silent on every existing tripwire. - This tripwire compares local pre-deploy thumb-pop count against live deployed thumb-pop count. A large drop is the signature of a deploy that lost the thumbs payload.
- The check is intentionally conservative — it ignores cold-start windows (no local thumbs yet) and only fires RED when local has thumbs and live doesn’t.
Generated 2026-06-06 10:20:47 via dare_dashboard_thumbs_check.py.