Reply To: Traffic tanked after a plugin update?

[meloncrash]

I mean, from what I see, Well, yeah, I wouldn’t ignore the timing either. I’ve had a cache plugin update once basically nuke the way bots were seeing pages while everything looked totally normal to me. Took way too long to catch because the front end was fine, but Search Console was acting like the site had gone half-dead. If it were me, I’d roll back the SEO/cache update first and see if impressions start coming back. At least check the rendered source and a couple URLs in GSC, because “looks fine in browser” means almost nothing with this crap. Could still be Google being weird, sure, but if the drop hit right after the plugin change, that’s too neat to ignore. At least lately. From what I see,