DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-25
The week, in a manner of speaking
Thursday's traffic jumped 34.8% on requests, 53.2% on page views—the Ken Adam War Room sketch pulling 126 hits and dragging the homepage along (431 hits, solid for a single asset). Cache rate climbed to 59.4%, which is the kind of recovery that feels intentional rather than accidental. The Cartier-Bresson takedowns shipped mid-week (Getty notices tend to arrive with purpose), and the botnet calendar keeps its rhythm: 947 threats blocked, 18.5% above the 7-day average. Here is a fun thing about the 404 pile: `/cdn-cgi/rum` and `/cdn-cgi/trace` each logged 45 404s yesterday, which is either a CDN probe or someone's monitoring stack looking for something that isn't here. The real comedy lives in `/cf-fonts/v/newsreader/5.2.10/latin/opsz/italic.woff2`—44 requests for a font file that doesn't exist, which suggests either a cached reference that shipped and then didn't, or a very determined browser somewhere. The llms.txt batching continues (Markdown-for-Agents up to rank 98 now), which explains why US traffic sits at 100k over 90 days and NL jumped to 14.6k—the crawler contingent found something it wanted to read.