DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-16
The week, in a manner of speaking
Friday's traffic spiked 24% day-on-day—12,106 requests, 3,751 page views—which would be notable except the header rollout shipped in seven batches yesterday and clearly still has people refreshing to confirm the CSS didn't detonate. (It didn't. Cache held at 63.2%, which is respectable.) The homepage took 452 hits, contact got 48, and the canonical header piece itself landed 33, which is either genuine interest or seven different DevOps people verifying the same thing seven times. Threats dropped to 456—well below the 7-day average of 880—suggesting botnets have better things to do on a Friday afternoon, or simply take them. The 404s remain baroque (favicon.ico, /wp-blog.php, a SpamFree image path that hasn't existed in three years), which is fine; they're traffic's way of reminding you what *doesn't* work. Volume above trend, cache stable, site still standing. That's the bar.