dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-06-05

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-05

Thursday’s traffic dropped 60% — requests down to 6,512, page views halved to 2,465 — which is what happens when you ship 363 ghost URLs through a redirect bucket two days after five simultaneous body-recovery batches. The site is fine (cache steady at 58.7%, origin unbothered), but the migration math is always messy in the short term. Meanwhile, the 404 audit from Tuesday is still echoing: CloudFlare’s static loader, the font stack, and a cropped ZIIIRO image account for 81 of yesterday’s 404s, all ghosts of the WordPress era that either need final redirect clarification or shouldn’t exist at all. The homepage took 431 hits (homepage always does), spring chair held at 25, and threat volume dropped to 186 — below the weekly average, which suggests either the botnets got bored or Tuesday’s batch work reorganized them into a different flavour of noise. Tilting at Windmills got its usual six readers, Colonel Blimp got 13, and somewhere in the Netherlands someone is looking at very specific photographs of Delhi. Traffic will normalize.

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