My take on that is that I know that the majority of my sales are as gifts. Of my last 3 orders which covered 5 suncatchers 4 of the suncatchers were purchased as gifts. The 5th may well be too but I have no current evidence of that.
I know these things as I have lots of lovely email conversations and occasionally phone conversations with my customers. Now I don’t know about anyone else but however little spare money I have I always still buy birthday and christmas presents for my nearest relatives and a few close friends. If money is short I still buy them presents but maybe slightly cheaper ones.
My graph is units sold not value
I also note that my target customer base covers an age range which generally has more disposable income so is likely to be least affected by the current financial situations.
PS We’ve been here before :
That topic details action taken by support when they discovered we were correct and we had gone Google blind and action was taken and things improved but it took several months as broken SEO takes a long time to rebuilt. Maybe we are going Google short sighted again ? My own Folksy Stats reveal astonishingly low Google source figures. As the Folksy search is pretty errrrrrr…not very good…maybe not surprising my views are down and thank goodness I have built a lovely customer base and have good webiste and SM links to direct people here.