dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-05-16

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-16

Saturday traffic held at 3,712 page views, up 37% on the week’s average—the homepage alone taking 563 hits, which is routine Saturday business. The header rollout finally stopped thrashing itself (batch 5 shipped yesterday, canonical markup settling across 212 observation pages). Cache hit rate dropped 9 points to 54.2%, which is worth noting only because it reversed rather than cascaded; origin stayed upright. Threat activity cratered to 406 blocks, less than half the weekly average—either botnets sleep on Saturdays or they’ve moved on to softer targets. The 404 landscape remains predictably haunted: /wp-content/uploads/cropped-n3.jpg accounting for 31 failed requests (phantom image, long dead), /cdn-cgi/trace for another 17 (Cloudflare health checks hitting a static site), and somehow the homepage itself generating 18 404s, which suggests either a client-side asset problem or the archive’s way of reminding us it’s still vaguely weird. /culture-means-thriving-teams/ and /fields-notes-from-business-design/ kept modest traffic—28 and 30 hits respectively—doing the work they were designed to do: exist, quietly.

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