Why a Site Redesign Can Destroy Your SEO Traffic

We redesigned a site and lost 40% of organic traffic. A technical post-mortem on what went wrong and what to check before any major design overhaul.

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Ideas in distributed teams scale better when systems are explicit, measurable, and observable.

The core principle remains the same: design reliable architecture, keep interfaces simple, and preserve communication loops between people and systems.