dare.co.uk — daily editorial · 2026-07-11

DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-07-11

Friday’s traffic dropped 15% to 12,763 requests—nothing alarming, a weekend fade—but page views actually held at 4,679 (+1.6%), which is the inverse of how these numbers usually behave. (The homepage, doing its job, collected 928 of them.) Cache hit rate slipped to 52.3%, still respectable, though the threat count spiked to 1,380 (+64% vs the 7-day average), which is either a Wednesday-into-Friday bot surge or someone got bored. The 404 audit work from early June is holding—38,599 total in 90 days, but the top non-existent paths are now mostly bots and old WordPress ghosts (/wp-login.php, Cloudflare scripts) rather than genuinely broken internal links. Cinema and the Philip Bloom piece are quietly accumulating—25 and 22 hits respectively, not viral but not ignored either. The culture-means-thriving-teams post is also moving, suggesting something in that corner of the archive is working. Netherlands and France continue to over-index (18k and 10k requests in 90 days), which has been the case since May and remains unexplained, in a pleasant way.

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