Reply To: Traffic tanked after a plugin update?

To be fair, yeah, I’d still put the plugins high on the suspect list. I’ve had a cache update quietly break crawl output before — not dramatic enough for a human to notice, just enough for Google to start acting weird. The annoying part is the site *looks* fine, so you waste time blaming updates and core spam and whatever else. If both cache + SEO plugin changed at once, that’s exactly the kind of dumb little combo that causes this. I’d roll back one at a time if you can, because otherwise you’re just guessing in the dark like everyone else in these threads does.