DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-12
The week, in a manner of speaking
Thursday's traffic spike was real — 9,086 page views, requests nearly tripled, the sort of day that arrives without announcement and leaves before you've finished explaining it. The 404 drift and R2 push pages picked up 75 combined hits, which suggests something upstream either broke or changed; the most-404'd paths tell the story in miniature (WordPress image paths, font files, CloudFlare trace endpoints — all the ghosts of migrations past). Cache held at 55.9%, which is the real news: the site stayed stable while traffic multiplied, origin didn't flinch, the machine did its job. The 4xx share spiked to 15.8% over 90 days (those 363 WordPress URLs finally catching up), but that's debt getting paid, not new damage. Threats down 19% versus average — botnets apparently taking Thursday off. By the numbers it looks like someone found the site, shared it somewhere, and for once everything scaled without drama. The quiet kind of win, which is the only kind that counts.