I discovered that about 2days ago my stories are not getting views. stories that get close to a 1000 views are now getting less than two hundred views what could be responsible for this
How are you measuring that exactly?
Note Google has been changing algorithms for the new year to enable /AMP/ priority in mobile serps, mobile friendly priority, page speed priority, https priority for mobile, etc.
You may notice reads go down on your site if not optimized for speed, mobile score at 90 or above, and https vs http for mobile audience.
Through the view icon that comes with theme that gives number view for the stories
That is just a simple hit counter and only counts main times the page was ‘loaded.’
You should always use something like the stats included with your hosting panel to see “actual traffic” to your site.
And as I stated, Google is changing how they show sites in search results.
So, good time to
a) check your pagespeed score with Google PageSpeed Insights
b) make sure your content is mobile friendly
c) consider using https vs http; your host should be able to give you free open source SSL/https cert
d) check your Google Search Console for messages about any issues/problems with your site
e) if using AMP, note the page counter does not count AMP views of pages
Not sure that helps; but all our sites traffic went down since the election in U.S., regardless of theme.
Theme doesn’t control inbound traffic to your website.
