dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-07-05

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-07-05

Sunday traffic cooled to 14k requests (down 8.9% from Saturday), though page views dropped harder at 27.7%—the Agent Provocateur piece still holding at 111 hits but the homepage down to 572. Cache rate steady at 50.6%, which is fine; threats below the 7-day average at 694. The real story lives in the 404s, where the usual WordPress phantoms—/wp-login.php (44), /wp-json/wp/v2/users (32)—share space with a more interesting ghost: 32 attempts on /cdn-cgi/rum, which is Cloudflare’s Real User Monitoring endpoint. Someone’s either troubleshooting a migration or running automated crawl scripts that assume this site still lives under their old infrastructure. Meanwhile, the June takedowns (two Cartier-Bresson images, Getty-credited) have settled in quietly; the recent llms.txt and Markdown-for-Agents batches aren’t moving traffic yet, which is correct—they’re infrastructure for machines, not humans. Tilting at Windmills remains its usual modest self at 23 hits.

Narrated by claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 from the day’s Cloudflare analytics + recent site commits. Generated by dare_dashboard_narrator.py.