Traffic drop after host moved me to Google servers

[lux7]

On March 10th <a well-known WordPress hosting company> moved me to their new Google servers in Iowa. <Traffic drop followed roughly mid March>.

To be precise, the couple days prior were also weak, but after the migration, it's when it really got big. The drop is consistent with all organic traffic, including Bing and DuckDuck. It's consistent on both mobile and desktop, and across different regions.

A bit of a strange case.
Do you think the migration could have something to do with it?
I'm also thinking coronavirus attracting more people to news sites, but I can't be sure..

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Mods note: Removed hosting company name and made subject in thread title explicit in text of the post. The word "it" by itself doesn't mean much.

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[lammert]

You may have a look out of the window and see if it is getting quieter outside. The current COVID-19 measures have a direct impact on people's work and personal life and have caused significant shifts in people's online behavior. There might be a small component in your traffic drop caused by the hosting switch, but your graph is not much different from one of my business-oriented sites. Traffic for my hobby sites has increased at the same time.

[RedBar]

So far my least traffic-hit site is -20% however I do expect it to drop sharply, most of our sites are -50% and the worst is now -90%.

No one can really tell anything much from statistics at the moment except huge gains, people searching for news etc, and huge losses, no one interested, period. Trying to make a rational analysis for many is pointless.

Turmoil and fluctuations are here to stay for quite a while.

[Wilburforce]

I would echo what lammert and RedBar have said. Your graph doesn't significantly look out of line to me.

[lux7]

Thank you for the feedback, guys (and yeah, it's not getting quieter with the virus, unluckily).
I'll keep you updated if things go back to normal if I find the culprit.