dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-06-12

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-12

Friday’s traffic fell 41% request-to-request and 64% on page views—which sounds dire until you remember that Thursday pulled 18k requests, which was itself an outlier (the 7-day average sits at 11k). The drop lands closer to normal than catastrophe. Cache rate dipped four points to 51.1%, which is fine; threats also dropped 34% to 176, suggesting Friday was a quieter day for botnets and a better one for everyone else. The homepage held its ground at 601 hits—the rest of the traffic scattered across Tilting at Windmills and the usual suspects (Apple White, Cairo)—while someone in the void remains determined to 404 against /cdn-cgi/trace (32 times, which is either reconnaissance or a very literal cache debugging session). The recent body recovery work across six June days (363 ghost URLs, 69 pages, R2 images, pending-card migrations) is still absorbing the noise; origin’s holding and that’s the job.

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