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Analytics

Next.js has built-in support for measuring and reporting performance metrics. You can either use the useReportWebVitals hook to manage reporting yourself, or alternatively, Vercel provides a managed service to automatically collect and visualize metrics for you.

Build Your Own​

import { useReportWebVitals } from 'next/web-vitals'

function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
  useReportWebVitals((metric) => {
    console.log(metric)
  })

  return <Component {...pageProps} />
}

View the API Reference for more information.

'use client'

import { useReportWebVitals } from 'next/web-vitals'

export function WebVitals() {
  useReportWebVitals((metric) => {
    console.log(metric)
  })
}
import { WebVitals } from './_components/web-vitals'

export default function Layout({ children }) {
  return (
    <html>
      <body>
        <WebVitals />
        {children}
      </body>
    </html>
  )
}

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.

View the API Reference for more information.

Web Vitals​

Web Vitals are a set of useful metrics that aim to capture the user experience of a web page. The following web vitals are all included:

You can handle all the results of these metrics using the name property.

import { useReportWebVitals } from 'next/web-vitals'

function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
  useReportWebVitals((metric) => {
    switch (metric.name) {
      case 'FCP': {
        // handle FCP results
      }
      case 'LCP': {
        // handle LCP results
      }
      // ...
    }
  })

  return <Component {...pageProps} />
}
'use client'

import { useReportWebVitals } from 'next/web-vitals'

export function WebVitals() {
  useReportWebVitals((metric) => {
    switch (metric.name) {
      case 'FCP': {
        // handle FCP results
      }
      case 'LCP': {
        // handle LCP results
      }
      // ...
    }
  })
}
'use client'

import { useReportWebVitals } from 'next/web-vitals'

export function WebVitals() {
  useReportWebVitals((metric) => {
    switch (metric.name) {
      case 'FCP': {
        // handle FCP results
      }
      case 'LCP': {
        // handle LCP results
      }
      // ...
    }
  })
}

Custom Metrics​

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:

  • 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)

You can handle all the results of these metrics separately:

export function reportWebVitals(metric) {
  switch (metric.name) {
    case 'Next.js-hydration':
      // handle hydration results
      break
    case 'Next.js-route-change-to-render':
      // handle route-change to render results
      break
    case 'Next.js-render':
      // handle render results
      break
    default:
      break
  }
}

These metrics work in all browsers that support the User Timing API.

Sending results to external systems​

You can send results to any endpoint to measure and track real user performance on your site. For example:

useReportWebVitals((metric) => {
  const body = JSON.stringify(metric)
  const url = 'https://example.com/analytics'

  // Use `navigator.sendBeacon()` if available, falling back to `fetch()`.
  if (navigator.sendBeacon) {
    navigator.sendBeacon(url, body)
  } else {
    fetch(url, { body, method: 'POST', keepalive: true })
  }
})

Good to know: If you use Google Analytics, using the id value can allow you to construct metric distributions manually (to calculate percentiles, etc.)

useReportWebVitals((metric) => {
  // Use `window.gtag` if you initialized Google Analytics as this example:
  // https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/canary/examples/with-google-analytics/pages/_app.js
  window.gtag('event', metric.name, {
    value: Math.round(
      metric.name === 'CLS' ? metric.value * 1000 : metric.value
    ), // values must be integers
    event_label: metric.id, // id unique to current page load
    non_interaction: true, // avoids affecting bounce rate.
  })
})

Read more about sending results to Google Analytics.