Add Vercel Web Analytics

[tobiaslins]

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[leerob]

Could you address the merge conflicts? Will this work when you clone and deploy or do you need to set something up ahead of time?

[tobiaslins]

@leerob I think @timolins mentioned this on Slack. The only problem is that people will need to enable Web Analytics on the dashboard, else they will see a 404 for the script and a log that tells them that they will need to enable it.

[thomasbritton]

Interesting feature add, but I feel the nature of requiring this to be enabled in the Vercel Project Settings etc kind of makes me feel that this shouldn't be added to this particular codebase as it's an out of the box solution.

And if you are on the Hobby plan, you can only have the Web Analytics enabled on 1 project if you have multiple projects.

It almost feels like it should be used as a specific template/example such as 'with-web-analytics', similar to the examples here https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples

[tobiaslins]

@thomasbritton agree!
One thing to add: Web Analytics is free on unlimited projects on Hobby (Speed Insights is only 1 project). There is just the 2500 events/month limit that applies.

[leerob]

We have decided to leave this out of the template, but should be able to be easily added if the customer wants to do so 🙏