Reply To: Traffic dropped again after the update

[meloncrash]

Yeah, I’d be looking at logs too, but honestly this smells like the usual post-update wobble more than “you broke the site” right away. I’ve had a couple sites do that dumb up/down thing where GSC looks like it’s having a seizure for 5-7 days, then it settles. Not saying ignore it, just… I wouldn’t start ripping plugins out on day one unless you’re seeing actual crawl errors or response issues. If it keeps dropping after that, then yeah, I’d start side-eyeing cache/rendering/canonicals. Google loves making “nothing changed” look like a lie.