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We audited forty client sites over eighteen months and tagged every significant drop-off point. In thirty-one of them the biggest leak sat three clicks deeper than the page the whole team was arguing about — usually a pricing page that answered the wrong question, or a form that asked for a phone number before it had earned one. Here's the audit method, the pattern we kept hitting, and the four fixes that moved the most.
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