Reply To: Traffic dropped again after the update

[axelrowan]

Yeah, I’d be looking at logs before I’d touch anything else too. If impressions are swinging like that, it’s not always a clean “site broke” situation. I’ve seen updates shuffle crawl patterns around for a bit, then settle, and it looks way worse in GSC than it really is. Still, if the bot’s getting slower responses, weird canonicals, or even just fewer hits on the pages that used to move, that’s usually where the problem is hiding. Also, “same plugins” doesn’t always mean same behavior. One update can change headers, cache rules, or how pages render just enough to mess with indexing without anything obvious blowing up. If it’s been more than a few days and it’s still dropping, I’d be less patient. Google can be flaky, sure, but it’s also… From what I see,