dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-05-18

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-18

Saturday traffic held steady—requests down 5.8% day-on-day but 10% above the 7-day average, page views pulling 37% ahead of baseline. The homepage did its routine 563 hits; /culture-means-thriving-teams/ and /fields-notes-from-business-design/ held at 30 and 28 respectively. Cache hit rate dropped to 54.2% from 63.2% yesterday (a tell-tale sign of the recent image recovery push—nine broken refs resolved on the 17th, three more keira-knightley images restored the morning after). Threats blocked fell hard to 406, less than half the 7-day average, which either means the botnet got bored or discovered a new target. The 404 pile is still climbing though—52,223 in ninety days, led by phantom image paths (/wp-content/uploads/cropped-n3.jpg alone 31 hits). Origin stayed clean. The site is doing the thing it does: routine traffic, messy residue, steady incremental repair.

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