Reply To: Traffic dropped after plugin update again

[Pike]

Yeah, I’d be looking at the plugin first too, not jumping straight to “Google did it.” I’ve had updates do weird stuff like bump CLS, break some lazyload nonsense, or just slow the whole site down enough that rankings start wobbling. Search Console usually won’t hand you a nice little note for that either, which is super helpful… not. If it was me, I’d roll back the last update and watch it for a day or two. If the swings calm down, there’s your answer. If not, then it’s back to the usual fun of guessing which part of the stack decided to be garbage.