dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-05-31

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-31

Sunday’s requests jumped 23% from Saturday (9,095 to yesterday’s 7,387), which is the kind of number that makes you ask whether there’s a story or just the weekend noise dispersing. The homepage pulled its weight at 433 hits, but page views actually fell 6.7%, which is a cheerful contradiction — more traffic, fewer page reads, cache hit rate down from 59.8% to 42.2%. The image recovery work shipped all day (18 recovered from archive, relative paths fixed, caption updates across cinema pages) is almost certainly the culprit: requests ticking up as crawlers re-indexed, cache dropping because the paths changed and the old ETags are suddenly polite ghosts. Threats blocked dropped to 162 from a 7-day average of 449 (the bots are either sleeping or Sunday is their sabbath), and /, /about/, and /cinema/woody-meryl/ held the routine traffic while the 404 queue filled with Cloudflare overhead — cdn-cgi/rum, rocket-loader, cf-fonts — the kind of phantom requests that never existed before the migration and probably never needed to.

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