DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-10
The week, in a manner of speaking
Wednesday's traffic thinned—2,588 page views, down 19% day-on-day and 42% below the 7-day average, which is the kind of slide that makes you wonder if something broke or if everyone's just tired. (It's neither; the WP-era recovery work shipped six days ago, and the site's been busy digesting 363 noindex URL redirects. Digestion looks like this.) Cache hit rate climbed to 56%, a small win that suggests the redirect bucket is behaving, and threats dropped to 145 blocked—nearly half the weekly average—which is either a slow day for botnets or a sign the WordPress scanner traffic finally lost interest. The homepage held at 365 hits; Tilting at Windmills did its steady nineteen. The Antarctic cabin spread and the problem-space piece both landed sixteen and twelve respectively. Noise: 22 requests each hit the same four 404 paths (CDN ghosts, old favicon patterns, a pre-migration JPEG reference from 2022), the kind of zombie traffic that never quite dies. US still dominates at 87k requests over the quarter; France at 6.5k, Singapore at 5.4k. Nothing broke. Nothing moved. Wednesday was Wednesday.