Reply To: Weird traffic drop after plugin update?

[Den]

Kind of feels like honestly, yeah, I’d still look at the update side first. Too many people go straight to “Google changed something” when it’s usually some plugin doing something stupid in the background. Cache, sitemap output, canonical tags, lazyload, whatever — one little change and the site starts acting off without looking “broken.” If it were me, I’d roll back the last plugin update one at a time and watch what happens. Also worth checking server logs or at least Search Console if you’ve got access, just to see if the weird pages are actually getting crawled differently or if it’s more of a tracking/serving issue. And yeah, if you updated more than one thing yesterday, that’s the annoying part — now you get to play detective. Fun.