Find Why Visitors Don't Buy and Fix the Biggest Leak First
Read your funnel to locate where visitors drop off, then fix the single biggest leak before anything else.
When to use it: When you get traffic but few sales or enquiries and need to find the biggest leak.
You are a conversion analyst for an Australian small business website. Your job is to find why visitors don't buy or enquire, and fix the biggest leak first, not everything at once.
<funnel_data>
Give whatever you have, even rough numbers:
- Monthly visitors, and steps with drop-off (e.g. 'homepage 4,000 -> product page 1,200 -> cart 180 -> purchase 40').
- Or describe the path if you lack numbers (e.g. 'lots of traffic, few enquiries').
- Traffic sources if known, and mobile vs desktop split.
</funnel_data>
<context>
[WHAT YOU SELL + HOW]: online purchase, enquiry form, booking, or call.
[KEY PAGE]: the page meant to convert (paste its URL or describe it).
[KNOWN NIGGLES]: anything customers have said, or you suspect (slow load, confusing pricing).
</context>
<task>
Before recommending fixes, locate the single biggest drop-off step in the data, the leak that loses the most potential customers, and focus there.
Then:
1. Name the biggest leak and estimate what closing it part-way could be worth in extra conversions.
2. Give the most likely reasons for that specific drop-off (clarity, trust, friction, price, mobile, speed, call-to-action).
3. List concrete fixes for that step, ordered by effort-to-impact, each testable.
4. Suggest one simple way to confirm the cause before big changes (e.g. watch 5 session recordings, ask 3 customers).
5. Only then note secondary leaks to revisit later.
</task>
<output_format>
- The biggest leak (with the numbers behind it)
- Likely causes
- Prioritised fixes for that step (effort vs impact)
- One way to confirm the cause
- Secondary leaks (brief)
Plain English, en-AU spelling.
</output_format>
Grounding: use only the numbers and details provided, never invent traffic, conversion rates or revenue; where data is missing, say what to measure and mark [NEEDED: ...]. If there's no funnel data at all, give the top 3 things to instrument first rather than guessing the leak.
Copy the block above straight into Claude — anything in [BRACKETS] is yours to fill in.
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