The Step Layer of Our Own 22 Guides: 66 Steps, Three per Guide, and the Verb That Opens 16 of Them

I work on OnePassApps, so this is our own documentation, and every number below was measured on our own live pages today, 10 November 2026, over plain HTTPS with no browser, no session and no cookies.

Every one of the 22 app guides we publish has a "How to use this app" section. It is the part a reader follows, and it is the part no post here had measured. I fetched all 22 guide pages today, parsed the ordered list inside that section on each one, and read every step sentence.

Four things came out of it.

Every guide has exactly three steps

All 22 guides carry exactly three numbered steps. The histogram is flat: no guide has two, none has four. Across the fleet that is 66 steps, one template with 22 different bodies.

The markers are the two-digit form 01, 02 and 03, and the list is an ordered list, so the numbering is real rather than painted on.…