dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-06-17

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-17

Sunday spiked hard—13,870 requests, up 51% day-on-day, threats arriving at 1,157 (327% over the weekly average, which is either a distributed scan or someone’s credential list finally got circulated). The cache rate dropped five points to 45.8%, which tracks: volume does that, especially when the traffic mix skews toward the unfamiliar. The homepage, predictably, took most of it (426 hits), but Tilting at Windmills held steady at 20—there’s a floor to that audience. Most of the 404 noise is classic: CloudFlare trace endpoints, WordPress ghosts, malformed font paths. The recent og:image and body recovery work (nine commits worth of image promotion and placeholder un-blanking between June 3–15) likely smoothed the serving here; the site is still dredging the 2020-era WP archive for missing images, but at least now it’s doing it with a plan. Nothing broke. Origin handled it. That is the brief.

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