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Confirm an Organic Traffic Drop: The Data Sanity Checklist

February 22, 2026 / by Dave Burnett

Why Step 1 exists Traffic drop investigations fail for one reason: teams start fixing before they confirm the problem is real. Step 1 is your seatbelt. It prevents you from spending two weeks “recovering” from a reporting artifact, a tracking change, or a normal seasonal dip. Your goal here...