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There's a real kind of a blur between the first five steps. And this is true of web apps and checkout funnels and advertising and all kinds of other things. If everything has gone pretty well, there's a lot of effort that has to go into like, all right, well, that step to this step of the funnel, the conversion rate was 95%. And the next one was 95%. Next one was 95%. Well, which one did the best?