Cutting steps from 11 to 7 won the list box

Cutting steps from 11 to 7 won the list box
11:25 UTC — Confirmed by a recipe-adjacent publisher. They held #3 for a "how to" query but a thinner competitor owned the numbered-list snippet. Their how-to had 11 steps; Google was reportedly only pulling 8 into the preview and truncating mid-thought.
— They consolidated to 7 clean steps, each opening with an imperative verb
— Snippet flipped to them in under 2 weeks
— Snippet CTR on the term jumped from ~9% to ~21%
Why it matters: List snippets cap around 8 visible items. If your list runs long and gets chopped, you look incomplete next to a tidy 7-step rival. Tighten to fit the box, not the page. Watching this.