dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-05-10

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-10

Saturday’s traffic is the first complete day post-launch, and the site is doing the thing it’s supposed to do: 14.8k requests, 2.9k page views, the homepage, contact, and methods all holding steady visitor load. Cache hit rate jumped to 43.3% — a genuine improvement from the pre-launch chaos — which suggests the CDN is finally making friends with the content. The 41% 404 share over 90 days is mostly the usual suspects: WordPress ghosts (/wp-login.php, /wp-admin/) and favicon.ico, which shipped fixed yesterday but takes time to percolate through the request stream. Notable: 2,183 threats blocked, which is either the WAF doing its job or a botnet with consistent opinions about /cdn-cgi/. The shipped pile from yesterday and today — Variant C archives, featured card picks, the newsletter form plumb, agent-discoverability layer — all landed Saturday into live traffic without complaint, which is the kind of boring success that doesn’t generate incidents. Netherlands is second by request count behind the US, which is either Dutch curiosity or a datacenter routing quirk. Quiet, professional Saturday.

Narrated by claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 from the day’s Cloudflare analytics + recent site commits. Generated by dare_dashboard_narrator.py.