Reply To: Weird traffic drop after plugin update?

[sergbank]

Realistically, yeah, I’ve seen that exact “not dead, just weird” thing after updates. Usually ends up being some dumb plugin conflict or cache/CDN nonsense, not some magical Google mood swing. If the timing is right, I’d be looking at the last thing you touched before I’d blame rankings. Google’s flaky, sure, but it doesn’t usually do the whole “random posts suddenly get clicks while the main pages sag” thing for no reason. That smells more like something changed in output, indexing signals, internal linking, or even page speed getting messed up. I’d be annoyed too though. Every time you clean up one little thing, some other part of the site starts acting drunk.