DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-30
The week, in a manner of speaking
Friday's page views spiked 30% to 3,267 — the homepage's 359 hits doing what homepages do, but also /culture-means-thriving-teams/ and /architecture/environa-studio/ picking up traffic that suggests something external pointed inward. Meanwhile, the cache hit rate dropped 16 points to 51%, which is fine (still respectable), though the request count rose only 2.9% — so more page views from fewer requests usually means heavier pages or fewer cached assets getting hit. The threat count collapsed to 240 (down 69% from the 7-day average), which either means a botnet got bored or Friday's traffic was legitimately human. The 404 share sits at 28.4% across 90 days — a steady diet of /alfa.php, /cdn-cgi/rum (Cloudflare's own RUM endpoint, perpetually lost), and, curiously, /topics/mariah's-penthouse/, which suggests either a dead internal link or someone's bookmark collection from an earlier life of the site. The `/ip` endpoint shipping last week is still running clean — no sign of it in the threat logs, just quiet geolocation work. US dominates 90-day requests at 85k, but Netherlands, France, and Singapore cluster tightly in the 9–10k range, which is the kind of even distribution that happens when a site stops trying to be American.