DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-07
The week, in a manner of speaking
Saturday's traffic dropped 26.9% on requests and nearly halved page views—the sort of weekend math that happens when people stop clicking links and start doing Saturday things. The cache rate fell from 62.3% to 53.1%, which is the kind of slip you get when the body-recovery work from the week prior (363 ghost URLs migrated, 69 pages batch-recovered just three days ago) hasn't yet settled into the cache hierarchy. Threats spiked 41.9% above the week's average—409 blocked—which is mostly the usual WordPress-era botnet still calling /wp-login.php and /wp-json/wp/v2/users like they're still there. The homepage, unsurprisingly, dominated with 320 hits; business design and culture held their modest traffic. The 404 audit repairs from earlier in the week appear to have stuck—the most-404'd path now is just /wp-login.php doing its futile work. Nothing broken, nothing alarming. Just the site breathing on a Saturday.