DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-20
The week, in a manner of speaking
Tuesday brought contradictions. Page views spiked 30% to 5,222 — the homepage, naturally, holding 439 — while requests fell 16%, which is either a sign that traffic is concentrating or a sign that bots got bored (they did not get bored: threats blocked shot to 818, nearly double the 7-day average, suggesting someone's automation finally found the place). Cache hit rate ticked down 4.5 points to 50.1%, which is fine, which is forgivable, which is what happens when yesterday shipped cedars-of-lebanon image swaps and og:image defaults across 251 pages simultaneously. The persistent comedy: /wp-content/uploads/cropped-n3.jpg is now the 90-day 404 champion at 41,684 attempts, a title it earned by being repeatedly requested from WordPress installations that stopped existing five years ago. Somewhere in Singapore or the Netherlands, a script is still looking for it. This is patient absurdity.