DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-26
The week, in a manner of speaking
Friday's traffic jumped 30% on page views—the knots and ties piece doing what evergreen content does when it catches the right moment, 111 hits in 24 hours, which is brisk for a three-year-old observations post. The homepage stayed sensible at 524, but the real story is the cache rate finally settling into something respectable (61.4%, up from yesterday's 59.4%), which tracks with the Markdown-for-Agents batches that shipped mid-month—bot traffic now hits content that's actually cacheable instead of falling through to R2 on every request. The 4xx share is still chunky at 23.8% over 90 days (CloudFlare's CDN-cgi paths account for a chunk of the phantom 404s; the Getty takedowns from earlier this month pruned some real ones). Threats held flat at 849/day, which is either boring or competent depending on your view of bots that still hammer /wp-admin on a static site—patience or stupidity, the math is the same. Cache recovery, content discovery settling, nothing breaking. Quiet Friday doing its job.