DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-18
The week, in a manner of speaking
Wednesday's traffic spiked 32.6% on requests and 84.9% on page views — a jump earned, it appears, by the og-pending card fixes that shipped mid-June. The cache rate climbed to 60%, which is the sort of number that makes the previous week's 52% look like an embarrassment in hindsight (it was). Threats blocked ticked up 25.5% above the weekly average at 713, likely botnets sniffing at the body-recovery work — 363 redirected ghost URLs from the WP-era sweep are still attracting determined interest from machines that have not yet learned to read status codes. The 404 share held at 15.3% across 90 days (16,025 total), which is acceptable given the archive's complexity. Traffic remains US-heavy at 97k requests, with Singapore and France trading third place at 7.7k and 6.6k respectively — China at under 4k suggests the redirect bucket is doing its job. Origin's breathing easier.