DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-19
The week, in a manner of speaking
Tuesday's traffic split itself into two distinct moods: requests fell 16% d/d (12,648), but page views rose 30.6% (5,222)—which is the statistical equivalent of saying fewer people visited, but the ones who did got considerably more curious. The /albums/cedars-of-lebanon/ page shipped new body images and og:image work on the 18th, and it's showing 28 hits, which is modest but enough to register against the homepage's 439. Cache hit rate dropped to 50.1% from yesterday's 54.6%, probably because the Cedar refresh pulled fresh assets into play. Threats spiked to 818 (77.9% above 7-day average)—mostly, it appears, the usual botnet percussion: 89 attempts on a cropped-n3.jpg that doesn't exist, 24 on /wp-login.php, 18 on /ip. The site continues its American lean (88,396 requests over 90 days, with Singapore at 12,102 and France at 10,241), which is fine. The only thing worth noticing is that when you fix things—and the commit log is very much a "fixing things" log—traffic sometimes reads it as "aha, new content," and decides to look harder.