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A practice-level measurement system that keeps discovery, enquiry, booking, completion, optical retail, and finance events in their proper lanes.

An optometry dashboard can look healthy while the appointment book tells another story. The usual cause is not a missing chart. It is a broken event dictionary: call clicks become calls, forms become patients, and booked appointments become completed visits before anyone reconciles the records.

Definition: Optometry marketing KPIs are decision-linked measures that preserve each stage from discovery through completed visit. Every measure needs a written rule, timestamp, source system, owner, exclusions, evidence window, and privacy gate. Practice operations may explain movement, but marketing data alone does not prove clinical quality, patient outcomes, revenue, or growth.

Scope and review notice: This is general marketing operations information, not medical or legal advice. It does not diagnose, determine urgency, establish clinical eligibility, or confirm that any privacy law applies or is satisfied. Have a qualified US optometrist or optometry practice administrator and a privacy/compliance reviewer approve the dictionary. Confirm state-sensitive service, practitioner, facility, and advertising claims with the applicable current board before use.

You will leave with:

  • an optometry-specific intent and exclusion model;
  • eight separate acquisition events with accountable owners;
  • five approved formulas that retain their evidence fields;
  • a privacy-gated reconciliation map; and
  • a monthly keep, change, or stop review.

What an Optometry Marketing KPI Is and Is Not

An optometry marketing KPI is a measure tied to a specific decision, such as changing a non-brand exam page or fixing intake classification. A raw count becomes useful only after the practice defines its stage, cohort, source, owner, exclusions, and threshold. It is not a proxy for clinical quality, productivity, profit, or optical performance.

Start with the question, not the chart. “Should we keep this contact-lens exam campaign?” can lead to a declared cohort and a completed-visit cost. “How is marketing doing?” invites a collage of incompatible counts. A practice with two locations may see more clicks while one location has no suitable appointment capacity. The count rose; the decision context worsened.

Measure familyWhat it can answerWhat it cannot establish
DiscoveryWhether a defined query, page, or campaign earned impressions and clicksPatient need, eligibility, enquiry quality, or appointment availability
ResponseWhether a visitor triggered a call action or submitted a formA connected conversation, a qualified request, or a booking
IntakeWhether a unique contact matched a written non-clinical ruleDiagnosis, urgency, clinical suitability, or completed care
SchedulingWhether a qualified new-patient enquiry received a confirmed bookingAttendance, completion, an optical purchase, or collected payment

Keep generic definitions of rankings, organic engagement, and technical measures in the SEO KPI guide. Keep generic content-funnel selection in the content marketing KPI guide. This page begins where those models meet optometry intake, scheduling, completion, and optical boundaries.

Freeze the Practice Truth Before Choosing Metrics

Write a dated practice-truth sheet before selecting any optometry marketing metrics. It must identify the legal practice and locations, licensed optometrists, verified appointment types, optical boundary, hours, current capacity, intake owner, clinical escalation path, source systems, privacy reviewer, and applicable state source. Unknown economics and market conditions stay marked unavailable.

This sheet prevents a campaign label from becoming a service claim. “Myopia management,” for example, belongs in marketing classification only if the practice has verified that service, practitioner scope, location, and booking path. The marketer can tag a request against that written truth. The marketer cannot decide whether a person is clinically eligible.

Practice-truth checklist

  • Identity: legal name, public name, each staffed address, phone route, and location owner.
  • People and scope: licensed optometrists, credentials allowed in copy, verified services, and effective dates.
  • Inventory: routine comprehensive exams, contact-lens exams or fittings, optical-only handling, approved specialty services, and new-versus-existing-patient rules.
  • Capacity: provider and front-desk coverage by location and appointment type, recorded as dated internal inventory rather than a public promise.
  • Escalation: one clinical owner for symptom-led or urgent messages and one non-clinical intake owner.
  • Governance: source-system owners, privacy reviewer, retention decision, and board source from the ARBO directory.

Fees, ticket sizes, payer and cash mix, net collected value, observed seasonality, and local competitive density are unavailable until the practice supplies dated, auditable records. Do not fill blanks with industry averages. A back-to-school pattern observed at one multi-location practice is not evidence for another practice with different providers, hours, or appointment inventory.

Build the Full Optometry Funnel Dictionary

Define one row for every event from impression through completed visit, with no shared labels or overwritten timestamps. The dictionary must also classify routine, contact-lens, optical-only, specialty, existing-patient, symptom-led, wrong-profession, career, vendor, spam, duplicate, and unreachable contacts. Marketing qualification stops at written non-clinical service, location, and capacity fit.

Optometry intent and routing table

Audience or intentVerified requestNon-clinical fit ownerClinical escalation ownerStage treatment and exclusion
Adult or guardian, routineComprehensive exam at a named locationFront desk or intake ownerLicensed clinical owner if symptoms appearEligible for marketing qualification only after service, location, and capacity match
Adult or guardian, contact lensContact-lens exam or fitting explicitly offered thereIntake owner using the verified appointment menuClinical owner for suitability or symptom questionsKeep separate from routine exam; exclude unsupported service or location
Optical-onlyFrames, lenses, adjustment, pickup, or another practice-defined retail taskOptical ownerClinical owner only when the message becomes clinicalSeparate retail event; never relabel as an exam, new patient, or completed visit
Verified specialty serviceOnly a service present on the dated truth sheetNamed specialty intake ownerQualified optometristMarketing may match stated request; clinical eligibility remains unclassified
Existing patientRecall, prescription, records, billing, reschedule, or care questionExisting-patient service ownerClinical owner where requiredExclude from new-patient acquisition cohort; retain in its proper service queue
Symptom-led or urgentAny message describing symptoms or asking urgencyIntake owner routes without interpretationPractice's licensed clinical pathwayExclude from marketing qualification until clinical handling is complete and approved
Wrong professionRequest appears intended for an ophthalmologist, optician, retailer, or another provider typeIntake ownerClinical owner only under written routing policyClassify separately; do not assume equivalence or count as qualified
Career, vendor, spam, duplicate, unreachableNon-patient or non-unique contactIntake ownerNone unless content triggers the clinical routeExclude under the exact reason; preserve audit status and original event

Eight-stage funnel dictionary

StageExact rule and timestampSource systemOwnerExclusionsPrivacy gateAllowable conclusion
ImpressionPlatform records one eligible display; keep platform timestamp and declared filtersSearch or ad platformSearch or campaign ownerMismatched location, device, country, query, campaign, or partial-day filtersAggregate reporting approved for the purposeThe defined asset was displayed under those filters
ClickPlatform records a visit action; retain click timestamp and landing assetSearch/ad platform plus site analyticsSearch or campaign ownerInvalid traffic and filter mismatches under the written ruleNo sensitive audience inferenceA click occurred, not an enquiry
Call clickSite or profile records activation of a call controlSite analytics or profile event sourceMarketing ownerTest events and documented invalid trafficDo not attach clinical message contentA call action was attempted, not connected
FormForm system accepts one submission at its recorded timestampForm systemForm ownerTests and technically rejected submissionsApproved fields, consent, access, and retentionA form arrived, not a unique enquiry
Unique enquiryIntake owner deduplicates an attributable call or form under the written identity rulePhone/form records plus intake logIntake ownerDuplicates and spam; keep other states separately classifiedMinimum necessary record and approved join keyOne distinct contact entered intake
Qualified enquiryUnique enquiry matches verified service, location, and current capacity without a clinical decisionIntake log or approved CRMIntake owner with clinical escalation ownerJobs, vendors, existing-patient tasks, wrong profession, unsupported scope, symptom-led recordsReviewer-approved classification fieldsThe stated request met the written non-clinical rule
Booked visitScheduling system confirms one new-patient appointment; preserve booking timestampScheduling or practice-management systemScheduling ownerDuplicates, pre-existing patients, unqualified records; reschedules counted onceApproved pseudonymous link where permittedA booking exists, not attendance or completion
Completed visitPractice-management system applies the written completion status after the service and late-entry lagPractice-management systemPractice administratorReschedules counted once, cancellations, no-shows, duplicates, immature recordsRole-based access and audit reviewThat booked cohort contains a recorded completed visit

Google Analytics documents recommended events such as generate_lead, qualify_lead, working_lead, and close_convert_lead. Those names do not define the practice's rules. Use the GA4 event documentation as implementation vocabulary only after owners approve the local dictionary.

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Choose Discovery KPIs Without Calling Visibility Demand

Use impressions and clicks to judge a declared search or campaign surface, never to claim patient demand or appointment potential. Preserve channel, query group, page, location, device, country, brand rule, and identical date windows. A discovery KPI supports a discovery decision; it cannot establish intent quality, capacity fit, bookings, or completed visits.

For organic search, define brand before exporting. A query containing the practice name, an optometrist's name, or a distinctive product name may need branded classification. Document the rule, then compare identical query, page, country, device, and search-type filters across complete windows.

Search Console's performance report supplies clicks and impressions with query and page filtering. Retain the exact filter set and note omitted or anonymized queries. Do not combine a location page's non-brand impressions with branded home-page clicks and call the result an exam conversion funnel.

Discovery questionValid cutBad shortcutNext decision
Is the routine exam page earning relevant organic attention?Non-brand optometry query group, exact page, location, device, country, 28 complete daysAll site impressions versus all callsKeep, revise, or stop the page/query treatment
Did a contact-lens campaign attract clicks?Named campaign and landing page during the frozen campaign windowBlending optical retail and exam campaignsChange creative or landing-page match
Did local presence change?Declared local rank or profile dataset with location ownershipAssuming profile activity equals enquiriesInspect the local-search workflow, then reconcile downstream stages separately

Where teams go wrong is denominator drift. They exclude branded queries from clicks but leave them inside impressions, or compare 28 days containing a closure with 28 fully staffed days. Save the export, freeze date, filters, and capacity note before discussing movement.

Measure Response and Qualification Without Making Clinical Decisions

Record call clicks, connected calls, form submissions, unique enquiries, and qualified enquiries as separate events. The intake owner may apply a written non-clinical match for verified service, location, and current capacity. Any symptom, urgency, diagnosis, or clinical-eligibility question must leave the marketing workflow and enter the practice's approved clinical escalation path.

A call click is useful for finding broken tap-to-call placement. It says nothing about whether a call connected. A connected call may be an existing patient asking about records, an optical pickup, a vendor, or a person seeking an ophthalmologist. Preserve the call event, then classify its outcome without copying clinical details into marketing tools.

KPI selection card

Business questionShould the practice keep the declared routine-exam campaign for Location A?
MetricQualified-enquiry rate for the named 28-day cohort
NumeratorUnique enquiries qualified under the written non-clinical service, location, and current-capacity rule
DenominatorAll unique attributable enquiries received in that same window
Evidence windowOne declared 28-day intake cohort plus the stated qualification lag
Source system and ownerPhone/form records reconciled to the practice intake log; intake owner with clinical escalation owner
ExclusionsDuplicates, spam, jobs/vendors, existing-patient administration, wrong profession, unsupported service/location, and symptom-led records routed for clinical review
Decision thresholdDerived from the practice's own comparable, mature cohorts; unavailable until those records exist
ActionKeep, change, or stop the campaign with a named owner and review date

TheStacc's Compliance Profiles apply required disclosures during planning, including license details, responsible-firm language, and not-advice wording where configured. They steer drafts away from prohibited claims and send each draft to a human verdict of None, Hold, or Block. Automated and agent-key callers cannot override that verdict; the licensed professional remains responsible.

That content control does not turn theStacc into a CRM, call tracker, scheduler, clinical triage service, finance system, or legal adviser. The Content SEO module handles keyword and search-result research, drafting, scoring and queuing, and CMS publishing. The practice must still own intake classification and professional review.

Connect Booked and Completed Visits Without Exposing Sensitive Data

Reconcile marketing response to booking and completion with the minimum fields approved for the stated purpose. Use a stable pseudonymous join key only where reviewers permit it, restrict access by role, preserve each event timestamp, and keep a mismatch queue. Cohorts remain open through declared booking, service, and late-entry lags before completion is judged.

Source-reconciliation map

SystemEvent suppliedApproved join keyData minimizationMismatch queueAccess ownerRetention/review gate
Search or ad platformImpression, click, campaign contextAggregate campaign/session reference where approvedNo patient or symptom detailUnknown campaign or filterMarketing ownerCampaign-purpose review
Site analyticsPage visit, call click, form eventApproved session/event referenceExclude form payload and sensitive traitsMissing landing sourceAnalytics ownerTracking and consent review
Phone systemConnected-call record and allowed outcomePseudonymous enquiry ID where approvedNo recording or clinical content in marketing exportCall click without connected outcomePhone/intake ownerAccess and retention review
Form systemSubmission and allowed routing statusPseudonymous enquiry ID where approvedOnly fields needed for routingForm without intake dispositionForm/intake ownerConsent, access, and retention review
Scheduling or practice managementBooked, rescheduled, cancelled, no-show, completedApproved pseudonymous appointment IDNo clinical notes in marketing viewEnquiry without booking or unmatched bookingPractice administratorPrivacy and audit gate
Finance recordApproved collected-amount event, if in scopeApproved cohort referenceOnly the minimum amount and status fieldsUnmatched or immature paymentFinance ownerFinance and privacy sign-off

No particular integration is assumed here. A weekly CSV reconciliation, controlled report, or approved system connection may all be workable; the practice and reviewers choose. What actually breaks is the join: staff overwrite a booking date after a reschedule, or marketing exports patient-identifying form fields because the dashboard accepts them. Keep immutable event timestamps and limit the marketing view.

Do not treat an unreconciled record as zero. Put it in the mismatch queue with a reason, owner, due date, and access rule. A booking cohort that has not passed the service and late-entry lag is pending. This is especially important when routine exams, contact-lens fittings, and verified specialty services have different scheduling horizons.

Add Capacity and Economics Only From Practice Records

Add appointment capacity, direct channel cost, fees, payer and cash timing, net collected amounts, or optical events only after the practice supplies dated records and reviewers approve their use. Segment by verified appointment type and location only when sample size and privacy allow. These inputs explain decisions locally; they never become portable optometry benchmarks.

Capacity changes what a rate means. Ten qualified routine-exam enquiries may be welcome when Location A has matching provider inventory and a problem when the next available suitable slot is outside the practice's current intake rule. Marketing should receive a dated capacity status, not infer availability from an online calendar or promise access in copy.

Approved formula sheet

FormulaNumeratorDenominatorEvidence windowSource and ownerExclusions
Non-brand organic click-through rateOrganic clicks for the declared non-brand optometry query/page/location/device groupOrganic impressions for identical filtersOne named 28-day Search Console window versus a like-for-like windowSearch Console; search ownerBranded queries, mismatched filters, omitted/anonymized queries, partial days, and consistently irrelevant countries/devices
Qualified-enquiry rateUnique enquiries marked qualified under the written non-clinical service, location, and current-capacity ruleAll unique attributable enquiries received in the same windowOne declared 28-day intake cohort plus stated qualification lagPhone/form records plus intake log; intake owner with clinical escalation ownerDuplicates, spam, jobs/vendors, existing-patient tasks, wrong profession, unsupported scope, and symptom-led clinical routes
Booked-visit rateUnique qualified enquiries with a confirmed new-patient bookingAll unique qualified enquiries created in the same cohortOne declared 28-day enquiry cohort plus the stated booking lagScheduling system joined to intake source; scheduling ownerReschedules counted once, duplicates, pre-existing patients, unqualified or clinically escalated records
Completed-visit rateUnique booked new-patient visits marked completed under the written ruleAll unique booked new-patient visits from the same cohortOne declared booking cohort plus stated service and late-entry lagPractice-management system; practice administratorReschedules counted once, cancellations, no-shows, duplicates, and visits not past the completion lag
Cost per completed new-patient visitDirect channel spend attributable to the declared cohortUnique attributable new-patient visits from that cohort marked completedOne declared 28-day acquisition cohort plus booking and completion lagSpend export plus completion record; marketing owner with finance/practice sign-offUncosted owner labor, unallocated agency overhead, existing patients, cancellations/no-shows, unmatched visits, and optical-only purchases unless scoped

Show call-click and form counts as their own raw rows before any rate. If the practice lacks fees, payer mix, observed seasonality, local-density records, or net collected values, write “unavailable.” Do not enter zero. Zero is a measured value; unavailable is an evidence condition.

Run a Monthly KPI Review With Keep, Change, or Stop Decisions

Hold one formal monthly review after freezing the reporting range and recording each source's extraction date. For every KPI, show completeness, capacity context, observed seasonality, local-density context, variance, exclusions, and cohort maturity. End with one keep, change, or stop decision, a named action owner, due date, and next review date.

Monthly review sheet

Frozen date rangeOne declared period; use a 28-day cohort where the approved formula requires it
Source freeze dateExtraction date and time for each contributing system
Data completenessMissing events, unmatched joins, immature bookings/completions, and late entries
Capacity contextAppointment type, staffed location, provider/front-desk coverage, and dated availability state
Observed seasonality notePractice evidence for this period or “unavailable”; no industry assumption
Local-density noteDated practice evidence or “unavailable”; no inferred competitive score
Variance explanationWhat changed in filters, capacity, routing, creative, page ownership, or source collection
DecisionKeep, change, or stop, tied to the original business question and practice-derived threshold
AccountabilityAction owner, due date, evidence expected, and next review date

A clean meeting starts with discovery and moves forward one stage at a time. If non-brand clicks changed, inspect the identical filter set. If unique enquiries changed, inspect deduplication and intake coverage. If bookings changed, inspect capacity and cohort maturity. Do not jump from impressions to completed visits and invent the missing causal steps.

Use a practice-derived threshold only after enough comparable, mature records exist for a defensible decision. Tiny specialty-service segments may need a longer review window or qualitative record audit. The right action can be “continue collecting under the same definition,” provided an owner and next review date are explicit.

Turn the review sheet into an accountable content and local-search plan. theStacc supports research, content drafting and publishing, GBP posting, review-reply workflows, citations, and rank tracking while your practice owns intake and completion records.

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Common Optometry KPI Failure States

Most optometry KPI failures come from altered definitions, missing ownership, or unsafe joins rather than bad arithmetic. Audit stage collapse first, then classification, cohort maturity, privacy, and practice context. A polished dashboard should be held when it mixes adult and guardian records, clinical messages, locations, services, or timestamps without explicit rules.

Failure-state checklist

  • Impression, click, call click, form, enquiry, booking, and completion appear in one “lead” row.
  • Duplicate enquiry or spam remains in the attributable intake denominator.
  • Wrong-profession intent combines optometrist, ophthalmologist, optician, and optical-retail requests.
  • An existing-patient request enters the new-patient acquisition cohort.
  • A clinical or urgent message sits in a marketing tool instead of the approved clinical route.
  • An unsupported service, outside-catchment request, or no-capacity state is marked qualified.
  • Adult and guardian records produce duplicate or mismatched contacts.
  • A connected-call outcome is missing, but the call click is relabeled an enquiry.
  • A reschedule creates a second booking instead of preserving one booking lineage.
  • A cancellation, no-show, or incomplete visit appears as completed.
  • A late completion or unmatched payment is treated as zero before the lag closes.
  • Brand and non-brand search groups use different filters or incomplete days.
  • Appointment type or location ownership is unmatched.
  • Observed seasonality and local density are assumed without dated practice evidence.
  • A tiny segment receives a rate without a sample-size and privacy review.
  • A review, testimonial, photo, or patient story lacks the required consent and compliance review.

Google allows businesses to ask genuine customers for reviews, but prohibits incentives tied to posting, changing, or removing a review. Follow the Business Profile review policy, require patient consent before using reviews, testimonials, or photos in marketing, and keep sensitive or outcome-specific detail out unless qualified reviewers approve it.

One practical stop rule covers several failures: if the source, definition, owner, exclusion rule, or reviewer is missing, do not promote the number into a KPI decision. Preserve the raw event, route sensitive records correctly, repair the dictionary, and re-run the frozen cohort.

Frequently Asked Questions and the 30-Day Optometry KPI Plan

These answers resolve scorecard, phone, form, delayed-completion, optical-retail, cadence, and benchmark decisions after the funnel dictionary is approved. The closing 30-day plan then puts definitions, review gates, collection, reconciliation, and ownership in order. Neither section changes the practice's clinical routing, professional responsibility, or privacy-review duties.

What marketing KPIs should an optometry practice track?

Track separate discovery, response, qualification, booking, and completion measures that answer a named practice decision. At minimum, preserve impressions, clicks, call clicks, forms, unique enquiries, qualified enquiries, booked visits, and completed visits as distinct events. Add cost or optical measures only when practice records, scope, ownership, privacy review, and reconciliation rules support them.

What is the difference between a call click, a form, an enquiry, and a booked visit?

A call click records an attempt to open a calling action. A form records a submitted payload. An enquiry is a deduplicated contact accepted under the practice's written intake rule. A booked visit exists only after the scheduling system confirms an appointment. Each event has a different timestamp, source, owner, and allowable conclusion.

Does a booked optometry appointment count as a completed visit?

No. A booked appointment remains a booking until the practice-management system records completion under a written rule. Reschedules stay attached to one booking, while cancellations, no-shows, duplicates, and visits still inside the late-entry window remain separate. This distinction prevents a full schedule from being reported as delivered patient care.

How should an optometry practice track phone calls and forms separately?

Give phone and form events separate source fields, timestamps, deduplication rules, and owners. Record a call click separately from a connected call and retain form submission as its own event. Only create a unique enquiry after the intake owner applies the same written rules for duplicates, existing-patient tasks, wrong-profession intent, spam, and clinical escalation.

How do you measure marketing when appointments are completed weeks later?

Use a fixed acquisition cohort and keep it open through the practice's declared booking, service, and late-entry lags. Report immature cohorts as pending instead of treating them as failures. Reconcile again after the lag, preserve original enquiry and booking timestamps, and document how reschedules or delayed record entry affect the completion count.

Should optical purchases and eye-exam appointments use the same KPI?

No. An eye-exam appointment and an optical purchase are different events with different owners, systems, privacy questions, and economic meanings. Keep optical-only requests separate from comprehensive exams, contact-lens exams or fittings, and practice-verified specialty services. Join downstream optical data only when the practice explicitly defines the purpose and reviewers approve the minimum necessary fields.

How often should an optometry practice review marketing KPIs?

Run one formal review each month using a frozen date range, then monitor collection defects more frequently when intake can fix them. Monthly review gives booked and completed visits time to mature while keeping actions accountable. Record the source freeze date, capacity context, exclusions, decision, action owner, due date, and next review every time.

Can an optometry practice use a universal conversion-rate benchmark?

No universal rate is reliable for practice decisions. Appointment mix, licensed scope, locations, provider capacity, front-desk coverage, payer and cash timing, local competition, seasonality, and classification rules change the numerator and denominator. Build an internal baseline from dated, auditable cohorts, then set a decision threshold that the practice owner and data owner can defend.

A 30-Day Optometry KPI Setup Plan

Use the next 30 days to define and test the system while unknown economics remain unavailable.

  1. Days 1–5: assign reviewers and freeze truth. Name the optometry-practice reviewer, privacy/compliance reviewer, state source, location owners, appointment menu, optical boundary, capacity feed, intake owner, and clinical escalation owner.
  2. Days 6–10: approve the event dictionary. Write eight separate stage rules, timestamps, sources, owners, exclusions, and allowable conclusions. Test routine exam, contact-lens, optical-only, existing-patient, symptom-led, and wrong-profession examples.
  3. Days 11–15: configure collection safely. Remove unneeded form fields, select approved join keys, restrict access, set mismatch queues, and document retention and review gates.
  4. Days 16–23: reconcile a sample cohort. Trace calls and forms through unique enquiry, qualification, booking, and completion. Keep immature, unmatched, rescheduled, cancelled, and no-show records in their true states.
  5. Days 24–30: run the review. Freeze sources, record capacity and available practice context, explain variance, then choose keep, change, stop, or continue collection. Assign one owner and due date.

For broader medical-search context, use the healthcare SEO guide, then bring only approved content and local-search actions into this operating system. The final scorecard should make every number traceable without exposing patient detail or pretending marketing activity proves a clinical, financial, or growth outcome.

Build a compliant publishing plan around the measurement system your practice approves. Keep licensed professionals responsible for claims and clinical boundaries while your team gives every marketing stage a clear definition and owner.

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Sources & references

Ritik Namdev

Ritik Namdev

Growth Manager

Growth Manager at theStacc. Five years in digital marketing, content strategy, and growth at content-led SaaS. Writes on Medium and YouTube about programmatic SEO and growth systems.

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