helleborine - 2:51 pm on Jan 28, 2013 (gmt 0)

I think it might be difficult to measure effects of the new display on traffic since Google was already displaying images ON TOP of the source page.

I'm afraid that this traffic was already lost to some extent with Google Images' old format.

Did I say I want Google to provide an opt-out mechanism?

Below is some referral history from Awstats from one of my websites:

Jan 2010
- Google (Images) 7,984/ 10,138

Jan 2011
- Google (Images) 173/ 396

Jan 2012
- Google (Images) 133/ 133

Jan 2013 (as of now
- Google (Images) 114/ 114

More data from a different website, on a different host:
Jan 2008
- Google (Images) 12,573/ 12,573

Jan 2009
- Google (Images) 2,709/ 2,709

Jan 2010
- Google (Images) 3,507/ 3,507

Jan 2011
- Google (Images) 89/ 196

Jan 2012
- Google (Images) 78/ 180

Jan 2013
- Google (Images) 44/ 44