Reply To: Traffic tanked after latest update, anyone else?

Yeah, I’d still treat this like Google first unless you’ve got a smoking gun on the WP side. Cheap hosting can make crawl/render stuff flaky, but when the pattern is “steady for months, then after an update everything slides,” that’s usually not a plugin suddenly deciding to ruin your week. I’d check: – GSC impressions vs clicks – whether it’s sitewide or just a cluster of URLs – crawl stats / 5xx / timeout junk – canonical / noindex / robots weirdness on the affected pages – whether the pages are still rendering normally when you fetch them If the pages are indexed but just lost position, that’s the annoying part — means it’s probably ranking churn or intent shift, not some obvious technical break. I’ve seen Yoast get blamed for way too much stuff it didn’t actually do. If you want, post whether impressions dropped too or just clicks. That usually narrows it down fast. Just my experience.