dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-07-02

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-07-02

Thursday’s traffic ticked down 25.7% d/d—a proper mid-week exhale after Wednesday’s momentum, though page views held more or less (3,298 vs 3,365). The Philip Bloom cinema piece stayed in rotation with 25 hits, suggesting something about that piece has durability. Cache rate dipped to 44.8% from 52.4%, which is the kind of fluctuation that happens when you’re not running a CDN—origin is soldiering through and that’s what matters. Threats dropped to 461 from an average of 857, which either means a botnet got bored or your firewall finally remembered what it’s for. The usual suspects are still at it—40 hits on /wp-login.php, 36 on /wp-admin/, a font file someone keeps requesting from a path that hasn’t existed in months. The 404 audit work from early June appears to be holding; 40,378 total 404s across ninety days is respectable for a static archive that spent the last month eating its own Wikipedia footprint. Quiet day. Normal week.

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