DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-29
The week, in a manner of speaking
Friday's page views spiked 30.5% to 3,267—a genuine uptick against the weekly average, not noise—while the homepage's 359 hits held its typical routine. The cache rate dropped sixteen points to 51%, which is still functional but signals something started hammering the origin (requests up 2.9% while traffic cooled from the week's pattern). Threats blocked collapsed to 240, down 69% from the 7-day average, which either means the botnets took the day off or someone finally got bored with probing /contact in alphabetical order. The quiet story: 35,026 404s across ninety days—a number so steady it's become infrastructure—yet yesterday's top missed path was /alfa.php (23 hits), which is a probe so generic it's almost touching. Origin held. Cache will recover. The homepage is still the only thing anyone actually wants.