DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-09
The week, in a manner of speaking
Tuesday's requests dropped 13% day-on-day while page views climbed 16.6% — the ratio inversion that happens when most traffic is automated noise filtering through the cache. Cache hit rate vaulted to 53.6%, a 12-point jump from Monday, because the body recovery batches that shipped June 3rd finally stopped rotting in origin. (The site spent three days vacuuming up orphaned images from a 4TB WordPress archive. It works.) The /, as ever, does 381 hits and the rest scatter — Taj West Hotel and Tilting at Windmills tied at 17, which is either genuine interest or the algorithm's sense of humour. The 404 count stays polite at 0.1% of traffic; the botnet still pounds /wp-login.php like a door that might suddenly open (18 hits yesterday, zero gain in wisdom). Origin held steady. Nothing broke, nothing stopped. Quiet Tuesday.