# Sudden drop in traffic

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [July 27, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sudden-drop-in-traffic/198350 "2021-07-27T19:29:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![jcasman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jcasman/32/120874_2.png) [@jcasman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jcasman)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sudden-drop-in-traffic/198350/1 "2021-07-27T19:29:14Z")

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I help run theta360.guide, a developers forum for a 360 degree camera with an open API. We’ve been running on Discourse for over 5 years. We use Google Analytics to track page views.

We saw a sudden drop in page views just in July. Basically from about 90K page views per month to 70K page views. Posts in the forum were at the same level or even slightly higher than previous month. Outgoing automatic emails same level. In other words, no indication that page views should drop, especially such a big, sudden drop.

Is anyone else seeing a drop in page views?

There is some inconclusive information on changes to Page Experience by Google. According to the following article, changes will be visible between June 15, 2021 and August 31, 2021.

> **[Page Experience Update after One Month - What Happened? - SISTRIX](https://www.sistrix.com/blog/page-experience-update-after-one-month-what-happened/)**
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> Impact analysis using 46000 websites. What changes have we seen after the first month?

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