dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-06-24

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-24

Wednesday’s traffic cooled—11k requests, down 8.6% day-on-day and 16% below the week’s average—but the cache held steady at 54.8%, which is the kind of small mercy you take on a Wednesday. The homepage did 813 hits (as it does), while the photography archive and cinema pages collected their usual steady trickle. The notable absurdity: threat volume jumped to 1,347 blocked requests—90% above the rolling average—which suggests Wednesday mornings attract the chattier botnets. (Boredom or algorithm, the payload is the same.) Two Cartier-Bresson images shipped out on takedown notice within hours of each other, which is either Getty’s lawyers being thorough or the site having borrowed slightly more liberally than it should have. The 404 bucket remains predictable theatre: /chosen.php, /wp-json/wp/v2/users, and the phantom /cdn-cgi/trace path account for 143 404s between them—bots rehearsing their muscle memory against a static site that has no idea who they think they’re talking to. Cache rate recovering, threats elevated, traffic normalising downward. Thursday’s day to watch.

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