dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-06-21

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-21

Sunday’s traffic spiked 26.6% on requests and 30.1% on page views—well above the weekly average—though the cache rate dropped to 45% from yesterday’s 53.3%, which is the sort of trade-off that happens when volume suddenly arrives. The homepage did the heavy lifting (1,788 hits); /contact got 29, which is either newsletter signup interest or forms poetry, depending on your mood. The Day of Affirmation speech pulled 18 hits, Tilting at Windmills held its own at 16. Threats blocked jumped to 1,432 (68.7% above average), which tracks—larger surface area attracts more botnet attention. The persistent 404 scoreboard tells its familiar story: /an.php (49 hits), /.yarnrc (43), /cdn-cgi/trace (42), all static requests from machinery that hasn’t yet noticed this site stopped being WordPress in 2024. The recent llms.txt and Markdown-for-Agents batches likely contributed to the volume spike; search engines and scraper clients both love a freshly indexable feed. Cache will recover. The bots will keep knocking.

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