DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-10
The week, in a manner of speaking
Tuesday's traffic dropped 13% day-on-day but page views climbed 16.6%—which is the sort of contradiction that happens when requests skew lighter but stick around longer (or cache behaves). The cache hit rate jumped to 53.6% from 41.7%, which suggests the body-recovery batches that shipped last week are finally settling into traffic patterns; three days of aggressive 404 audits and image migrations have apparently paid off. The homepage, predictably, took 381 of yesterday's 3,204 page views. The Taj West Hotel piece and Tilting at Windmills held steady at 17 each—archive gravity, not momentum. Notable in the noise: 22 404s for a Newsreader font file that does not exist, 21 for a Cloudflare script that's equally phantom, and 18 for /wp-login.php, which the site parted company with in 2024 and yet someone's bot has not noticed. The 90-day 404 bucket sits at 20,032 entries—baggage, mostly inherited from the WordPress era, though the June cleanup passes are visibly chipping away at it. Requests from US traffic hold at 87k of the 90-day pie; France, Canada, and Singapore cluster below 6.4k each. Quiet day, but the kind of quiet where something is working.