Analytics tracking is installed

Launching without analytics means the traffic from your Product Hunt post, Reddit thread, or paid campaign arrives invisible — you cannot tell whether anyone clicked, which pages they landed on, or where they dropped out of signup. Conversion funnels, referrer attribution, and bounce-rate signals are unrecoverable retroactively; if you add analytics a week later, that launch week stays a black hole. Product decisions default to vibes instead of data.

On Vercel, install @vercel/analytics and render <Analytics /> in app/layout.tsx — zero config, no cookie banner required. For a privacy-friendly alternative use Plausible via next-plausible, or PostHog for session recording and funnel analysis. Confirm the production environment variable holds a real tracking ID, not YOUR_GA_ID or phc_placeholder.

// app/layout.tsx
import { Analytics } from '@vercel/analytics/react'
export default function RootLayout({ children }) { return <html><body>{children}<Analytics /></body></html> }