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| title: How to add analytics to your Next.js application |
| nav_title: Analytics |
| description: Measure and track page performance using Next.js Speed Insights |
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| Next.js has built-in support for measuring and reporting performance metrics. You can either use the [`useReportWebVitals`](/docs/app/api-reference/functions/use-report-web-vitals) hook to manage reporting yourself, or alternatively, Vercel provides a [managed service](https: |
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| ## Client Instrumentation |
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| For more advanced analytics and monitoring needs, Next.js provides a `instrumentation-client.js|ts` file that runs before your application's frontend code starts executing. This is ideal for setting up global analytics, error tracking, or performance monitoring tools. |
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| To use it, create an `instrumentation-client.js` or `instrumentation-client.ts` file in your application's root directory: |
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| ```js filename="instrumentation-client.js" |
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| console.log('Analytics initialized') |
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| window.addEventListener('error', (event) => { |
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| reportError(event.error) |
| }) |
| ``` |
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| ## Build Your Own |
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| <PagesOnly> |
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| ```jsx filename="pages/_app.js" |
| import { useReportWebVitals } from 'next/web-vitals' |
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| function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) { |
| useReportWebVitals((metric) => { |
| console.log(metric) |
| }) |
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| return <Component {...pageProps} /> |
| } |
| ``` |
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| View the [API Reference](/docs/pages/api-reference/functions/use-report-web-vitals) for more information. |
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| </PagesOnly> |
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| <AppOnly> |
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| ```jsx filename="app/_components/web-vitals.js" |
| 'use client' |
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| import { useReportWebVitals } from 'next/web-vitals' |
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| export function WebVitals() { |
| useReportWebVitals((metric) => { |
| console.log(metric) |
| }) |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ```jsx filename="app/layout.js" |
| import { WebVitals } from './_components/web-vitals' |
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| export default function Layout({ children }) { |
| return ( |
| <html> |
| <body> |
| <WebVitals /> |
| {children} |
| </body> |
| </html> |
| ) |
| } |
| ``` |
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| > Since the `useReportWebVitals` hook requires the `'use client'` directive, the most performant approach is to create a separate component that the root layout imports. This confines the client boundary exclusively to the `WebVitals` component. |
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| View the [API Reference](/docs/app/api-reference/functions/use-report-web-vitals) for more information. |
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| </AppOnly> |
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| ## Web Vitals |
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| [Web Vitals](https: |
| experience of a web page. The following web vitals are all included: |
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| - [Time to First Byte](https: |
| - [First Contentful Paint](https: |
| - [Largest Contentful Paint](https: |
| - [First Input Delay](https: |
| - [Cumulative Layout Shift](https: |
| - [Interaction to Next Paint](https: |
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| You can handle all the results of these metrics using the `name` property. |
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| <PagesOnly> |
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| ```jsx filename="pages/_app.js" |
| import { useReportWebVitals } from 'next/web-vitals' |
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| function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) { |
| useReportWebVitals((metric) => { |
| switch (metric.name) { |
| case 'FCP': { |
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| } |
| case 'LCP': { |
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| } |
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| } |
| }) |
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| return <Component {...pageProps} /> |
| } |
| ``` |
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| </PagesOnly> |
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| <AppOnly> |
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| ```tsx filename="app/_components/web-vitals.tsx" switcher |
| 'use client' |
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| import { useReportWebVitals } from 'next/web-vitals' |
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| export function WebVitals() { |
| useReportWebVitals((metric) => { |
| switch (metric.name) { |
| case 'FCP': { |
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| } |
| case 'LCP': { |
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| } |
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| } |
| }) |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ```jsx filename="app/_components/web-vitals.js" switcher |
| 'use client' |
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| import { useReportWebVitals } from 'next/web-vitals' |
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| export function WebVitals() { |
| useReportWebVitals((metric) => { |
| switch (metric.name) { |
| case 'FCP': { |
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| } |
| case 'LCP': { |
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| } |
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| } |
| }) |
| } |
| ``` |
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| </AppOnly> |
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| <PagesOnly> |
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| ## Custom Metrics |
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| In addition to the core metrics listed above, there are some additional custom metrics that |
| measure the time it takes for the page to hydrate and render: |
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| - `Next.js-hydration`: Length of time it takes for the page to start and finish hydrating (in ms) |
| - `Next.js-route-change-to-render`: Length of time it takes for a page to start rendering after a |
| route change (in ms) |
| - `Next.js-render`: Length of time it takes for a page to finish render after a route change (in ms) |
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| You can handle all the results of these metrics separately: |
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| ```js |
| export function reportWebVitals(metric) { |
| switch (metric.name) { |
| case 'Next.js-hydration': |
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| break |
| case 'Next.js-route-change-to-render': |
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| break |
| case 'Next.js-render': |
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| break |
| default: |
| break |
| } |
| } |
| ``` |
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| These metrics work in all browsers that support the [User Timing API](https: |
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| </PagesOnly> |
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| ## Sending results to external systems |
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| You can send results to any endpoint to measure and track |
| real user performance on your site. For example: |
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| ```js |
| useReportWebVitals((metric) => { |
| const body = JSON.stringify(metric) |
| const url = 'https: |
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| if (navigator.sendBeacon) { |
| navigator.sendBeacon(url, body) |
| } else { |
| fetch(url, { body, method: 'POST', keepalive: true }) |
| } |
| }) |
| ``` |
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| > **Good to know**: If you use [Google Analytics](https: |
| > `id` value can allow you to construct metric distributions manually (to calculate percentiles, |
| > etc.) |
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| > ```js |
| > useReportWebVitals((metric) => { |
| > |
| > |
| > window.gtag('event', metric.name, { |
| > value: Math.round( |
| > metric.name === 'CLS' ? metric.value * 1000 : metric.value |
| > ), |
| > event_label: metric.id, |
| > non_interaction: true, |
| > }) |
| > }) |
| > ``` |
| > |
| > Read more about [sending results to Google Analytics](https: |
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