DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-17
The week, in a manner of speaking
Saturday's traffic dipped 5.8% request-wise but stayed 37% above the seven-day average—page views holding steady while the homepage carried 563 of them, which is the kind of steady-state dominance that suggests people know where to go. Cache hit rate dropped to 54.2% from 63.2% (yesterday's cleanup work, shipped across Friday and Saturday, appears to be shaking things loose; image recovery on broken refs resolved 9 of 9, which is the kind of 100% that makes the 4xx spike feel less like chaos and more like necessary archaeology). The contact page got 27 hits and someone shuffled the About link around three times across two days—moved it into the intro block, then considered moving it back out, then (yesterday's commit says) abandoned the idea—which is the kind of rapid toggle that happens when a change feels right but doesn't quite land until it does. Threat rate tanked to 406 (45% below average), possibly because botnets respect weekends even if /wp-content/uploads/cropped-n3.jpg doesn't (31 404s suggesting something's still pointed at a path that evaporated). Culture and methods picked up organic momentum despite the sitemap reshuffle on Friday. Quiet, iterative, the kind of Saturday where you notice the work because it mostly went right.