dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-05-30

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-30

Saturday brought 2,609 page views down 20% day-on-day and 24.6% below the weekly average—the sort of quiet you expect when half the internet is elsewhere. The homepage held 498 hits, which is fine; Tilting at Windmills pulled its steady six. The real news was cache: 59.8%, a gain of 8.8 points from Friday, which suggests the /ip endpoint shipped on the 26th is now doing what it was supposed to do (convert browser requests into cacheable responses). That same refresh also explains why the 404 list is now dominated by Cloudflare’s own cdn-cgi endpoints—phantom requests the site doesn’t own—rather than genuinely broken paths. Threats dropped to 235, half the weekly average, which on a Saturday is either good news or the botnet’s day off. The 33,124 accumulated 404s across ninety days are still a problem, but at least the problem is now quantifiable rather than invisible.

Narrated by claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 from the day’s Cloudflare analytics + recent site commits. Generated by dare_dashboard_narrator.py.