Reply To: Traffic keeps bouncing for no reason

[pixelwitch]

Yeah, I wouldn’t jump straight to “Google update” every time it does this. If it’s bouncing that hard, I’d still side-eye the host first. I’ve had sites look totally normal in the browser and then Googlebot was basically getting a different experience cause of slow responses / cache weirdness / random 5xx stuff. That kind of thing makes traffic look haunted. Astra’s probably not the issue. Rank Math and the affiliate plugins can add some junk, but unless something’s misbehaving they’re not usually the whole mess. If it were me, I’d be checking server response times and logs before I blame the theme. Google Search Console is useless for this stuff half the time anyway. Honestly,