DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-08
The week, in a manner of speaking
Sunday traffic dropped 37% against Saturday—not unusual for the weekly trough, though it landed 39% below the seven-day average, which reads like people were genuinely elsewhere (not scrolling archive sites on a summer weekend, which is rational). The homepage held 290 hits; methods-of-business-design and culture-means-thriving-teams each pulled 16, the kind of modest steady state that suggests someone, somewhere, is methodically working through the site rather than bouncing. Cache rate climbed to 57.2%—the recent body-recovery and image-migration work (363 noindex redirects, six batches of R2 image promotion, og:image rewrites across eight pages) is visibly helping the origin breathe easier. Threats dropped 29% below average; the botnet is apparently keeping banker's hours. The 23,005 404s accumulated over ninety days sit mostly in ghost URLs from the WordPress era—the June 4 sweep moved 363 of those to the redirect bucket, which is the kind of unglamorous infrastructure work that later shows up as a cache-rate improvement you never think to mention.