dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-06-14

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-14

Saturday’s traffic pulled back 15% on requests (9.2k) while page views held steady — the homepage still moves 326 hits and Tilting at Windmills continues its reliable six-hits-a-day existence, which is either cult classic or statistical rounding error (the answer is yes). Cache holding at 50.8%, which is fine; the body recovery work that shipped early June seems to have settled in. The interesting part: threats spiked to 474 blocked — that’s 81% above the 7-day average. Most of it noise (the usual /wp-json and /cdn-cgi probing), but the 404 audit from three weeks back is still catching stragglers; someone’s still asking for that cropped ziiiro image from the og:image migrations. The 90-day mix suggests the site’s doing what it should — 4xx share at 16% (mostly legit 404s from dead WordPress-era paths), 5xx holding at a ghost fraction of a percent. Quiet Saturday, the kind where infrastructure stays boring and that’s the whole point.

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