DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-06-27
The week, in a manner of speaking
Friday traffic spiked 31% on page views and 16% on requests—the knots-and-ties observations piece doing legwork (111 hits in 24 hours, second only to home). Cache recovered to 61.4%, which is the upward slope we like to see. The Markdown-for-Agents batches shipping since mid-June—five separate content-negotiation commits laying .md twins across the top 98 articles—appear to be creating crawler interest; Netherlands requests up to 14,681 on the 90-day view, SG at 5,844. The Getty image takedowns (two Cartier-Bresson removals on the 24th) haven't dented momentum, which suggests traffic is finding what's *here*, not what *was* here. Threats stable at 849 blocked. The 404 noise remains exactly what it was: Getty CDN, Cloudflare's internal paths, WordPress ghosts (363 noindex URLs migrated to redirect bucket in early June)—all bots testing for things that will never exist. Origin stayed upright. A good day.