DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-09
The week, in a manner of speaking
Monday's requests spiked 41% day-over-day to 9,720, though page views barely budged (2,749, flat), which means the architecture is getting hammered by something other than human interest. Cache hit rate tanked from 57% to 42%—a 15-point drop that's both sudden and architectural, not coincidental. The culprit is almost certainly the body recovery batches shipped last week: 363 WordPress-era ghost URLs migrated to redirects on June 4th, then six rounds of image/content rescue (June 3rd, clustered densely) pulling from the 4TB archive. Each recovery pass means cache misses on freshly-restored paths until the CDN catches up. Threats blocked ticked up 8% to 348, above the 7-day average, which is routine noise. Worth noting: /cdn-cgi/rum, Cloudflare Rocket Loader, and /goods.php account for 62 of the 404s—all WordPress-era phantom limbs that the June 4th sweep was supposed to defang. The redirect bucket is working; the 404s are just proof the ghosts are still being tested. Origin held. The homepage pulled 410 of the 2,749 page views, as it does.