Do Images Speak?

In a fast paced race,with the changing landscape of the Digital World is often puzzling.  Questions that baffle the site owners are,
Do images really drive traffic?
Do the digital audience go for image search any more?
What will image search traffic look for through images in 2020?

Looking Back the Trend

When Google announced 'View Image' button in 2013, a storm sweeped through the world web. While data recorded a steep decline in image search traffic.

Whereas Anthony Muller's research on varied sites found a contrary result of huge gain through image search traffic from Google.


Trend in 2019

In the year 2019, visual images and videos grabbed spotlights catching site viewers' attention.Thus understanding the emerging trend, traffic gain through image search no more be overlooked. In flashback, images did contribute in making the website popular and driving traffic. Whether this trend will continue in 2020 or drop requires foresight while learning from the past. However we need to understand significance of design in digital age.