DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-01
The week, in a manner of speaking
Monday's traffic woke up sharp: 9,833 requests (+8% day-on-day, +10.5% against the week), with page views more than doubling to 3,872 (+59% d/d). The cache hit rate jumped to 69.7% from yesterday's 42.2% — a genuine recovery, not a fluke — which suggests the recent image migrations and header patches from late last week have finally stopped warring with themselves. The homepage, as ever, took 312 of those hits; /contact and /about/ doing their quiet supporting work. Threats blocked dropped to 184 (38% below average), either because the botnets got bored or because the ones still trying are sufficiently predictable that nothing slips through. The 404 noise persists — /cdn-cgi/trace and Cloudflare's own RUM endpoints still 404ing at scale, which is less a dare problem and more a reminder that aggressive asset paths get tried whether they exist or not. Over ninety days, the US accounts for 73k of the 116k requests; Netherlands, France, Singapore, Canada trailing in sensible order. Quiet Monday. Things holding.