Hmm Riyaz, check what sources, locations, folders, etc. are changing and losing traffic over time. Losing traffic significantly because of changing the server settings is highly unlikely. It's probably caused by something else or a normal flow.

Hi,

1. Usually won't work and with 50k extra rules in your htaccess file it will for sure slow down the site as for every request to your server it has to go through the htaccess file.

For now I would recommend going with 6. with the information that you've provided. By doing it like this you can do a very quick check on your database and also in the request have the user send to the right page.

Martijn.

Hi,

For now I would leave it unchecked so you're disabling the GEO selection. Do you have the content available in multiple languages as well? If so, you could look into using the HREF Lang tags to make sure your content is ranking in the appropriate language/country.

Martijn.

Hi Sander,

Isn't that the amount of words people read per second? So what you're basically calculating is how much content do people read in the end?

Martijn.

Hey Rik,

Have you reached out to the Yoast team (either via yoast.com or @yoast), they're very responsive folks and always willing to help out.

Martijn.

I got a feeling you're confusing two things here. What would you like to do in Google Analytics? As before we were only talking as far as I know about Google Search Console.

If you don't want Google to look at them just go with the narrow parameter option. Filtering is the same.