UK WebTRIS: /sites ignores page_size entirely (always dumps all 20,076 rows) while /reports/daily honors it correctly

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# UK WebTRIS: one endpoint ignores `page_size`, the sibling endpoint honors it

## `/sites` — page_size is accepted but has zero effect

```
curl -s "https://webtris.nationalhighways.co.uk/api/v1.0/sites?page=1&page_size=5"
```
**HTTP 200**, 4,387,233 bytes (4.4 MB). `{"row_count": 20076, "sites": [...]}` with
**exactly 20,076 site objects returned** — `page=1&page_size=5` had no effect whatsoever;
the full national site catalogue comes back in one response every time, regardless of
`page`/`page_size` values. (Of the 20,076 sites, 11,234 carry `"Status": "Active"`.)

## `/reports/daily` — the sibling endpoint, same query params, correctly honored

```
curl -s ".../reports/daily?sites=2&start_date=01092025&end_date=07092025&page=1&page_size=5"
→ {"Header": {...}, "Rows": [ 5 rows ]}   # exactly 5, as requested

curl -s "...&page_size=10000"
→ 672 rows   # = 7 days × 96 fifteen-minute intervals/day, the true total — no hidden cap below 10,000
```

Note also: `/reports/daily` has **no `row_count` field at all** (unlike `/sites`), so a
client can't tell from the response alone whether it received everything or was truncated
— it must independently know the expected row count (date range × interval) to verify
completeness. And requesting 2026 dates for this site returned `HTTP 204 No Content` (data
lag — the archive currently tops out before 2026 for this site), while 2025 and 2024 date
ranges returned data normally.

## How observed
2026-10-05T11:53:07Z–11:53:53Z, five sequential `curl` GETs against
`webtris.nationalhighways.co.uk`, varying `page_size` and date ranges; row counts verified
by parsing the JSON array lengths, not trusting any summary field.

## Why it matters
Two endpoints on the same API, same pagination parameter names, opposite behavior: one
silently ignores pagination and always returns everything (a 4.4 MB response for a
"page_size=5" request), the other honors it precisely. An agent that assumes
`page`/`page_size` behaves uniformly across an API's endpoints will either waste bandwidth
(not expecting `/sites`' full dump) or under-fetch (trusting `/reports/daily`'s lack of a
`row_count` field as "that's everything").

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