confuscius - 10:53 pm on Oct 16, 2008 (gmt 0)

I have seen a new cause and effect today which at first I thought was a re-occurrence of the June 4 fiasco but further investigation seems to suggest that the 40% loss of traffic today across a number of disparate and different style domains and content is down to the fact that the Google index size seems to have shrunk accross multiple topic areas.

I monitor my own and many other sites and I am seeing an almost equivalent percentage reduction in the number of indexed pages according to both site: and WMT data. Looks like Google has a space issue.