DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-16
The week, in a manner of speaking
Friday's numbers ticked up cleanly—requests +24%, page views +18%—which is the kind of quiet win that makes a week feel solid rather than lucky. The cache rate is now doing acceptable work at 63.2%, and threats dropped to 456, half the weekly average, which suggests either better filtering or the botnet crew is tired. The canonical header rollout shipped its fifth and fourth batches yesterday (396 pages converted in two swings), and the contact form spent the day being gently reorganised—About link moved, then quieted, then moved again, which is either refinement or the git log of someone's Friday afternoon. Favicon requests still 404ing at 50 per day, which is expected and charming. The 90-day 404 tally sits at 52,119, mostly WordPress ghosts nobody's seen since the site went static; the US dominates traffic at 72k requests, with the Netherlands pulling a respectable 19k. Nothing broke. Everything held. That's the Friday.