Chartbeat: over two years, search traffic fell 60% for publishers with 1,000 to 10K daily page views, 47% for those with 10K-100K, and 22% for those with 100K+
Smaller web publishers, with 1,000-10,000 daily page views, are experiencing the most precipitous traffic declines in the AI era …
To summarize: — 1. Way more people are using AI than admitting they're using it. — 2. People are very rarely verifying AI's result by clicking the embedded links (& people are very rarely clicking any link in general, social media or otherwise) [embedded post]