DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-07
The week, in a manner of speaking
Sunday traffic dropped 37% to 6,890 requests—holiday softness, or just the rhythm of a weekend after a week of content shipping. The homepage, as ever, absorbed most of it (290 hits), while the recovery work that landed last week (methods-of-business-design and culture-means-thriving-teams) each pulled modest but steady 16-hit days. Cache rate climbed to 57.2%, a genuine improvement—the site's metabolism is settling after the body-recovery batches and WP-era redirect bucket migrations finished Thursday. Worth noting: the 404 audit fixed three broken CloudApp refs, but `/cdn-cgi/trace` still racked up 25 phantom 404s yesterday (Cloudflare diagnostics hitting a path that doesn't exist; a small bot/probe tax, not a real problem). Threats blocked stayed lean at 221, down 29% from the weekly average—Sunday quieter than usual, or the noise simply drowns quieter on weekends. Page views held at 2,747. Nothing alarmed. The archive is doing its job.