dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-06-11

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-11

Wednesday’s traffic sagged—2,588 page views, down 19% day-on-day and 42% below the 7-day average—but the cache finally remembered what it was supposed to do. Hit rate climbed to 56%, which is the kind of incremental recovery that feels earned when you’ve spent the last week watching a site rebuild itself from a 4TB WordPress graveyard. The recent body-recovery batches (six separate commits across June 3rd alone, each one fishing out pages and their orphaned images) appear to be settling in; threats blocked dropped by half versus the weekly average, which usually means the noise is clearing and the signal is actually readable again.

The 404s tell a familiar story of post-migration phantom limbs—favicon still missing, CloudFlare’s Rocket Loader ghost-requesting itself, font references to dead CDN paths. But here’s the thing: none of this is the site’s problem anymore. Those are visitor browsers and third-party tools trying to load things that never belonged here, while the homepage handled 365 requests like it was clockwork. Tilting at Windmills pulled its usual steady six readers; the Antarctica cabins got sixteen. Quiet Wednesday. The site is working.

Narrated by claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 from the day’s Cloudflare analytics + recent site commits. Generated by dare_dashboard_narrator.py.