# Web Analytics Patterns

## Core Web Vitals Debugging

Dashboard → Core Web Vitals → Click metric → Debug View shows top 5 problematic elements.

### LCP Fixes

```html
<!-- Priority hints -->
<img src="hero.jpg" loading="eager" fetchpriority="high" />
<link rel="preload" as="image" href="/hero.jpg" fetchpriority="high" />
```

### CLS Fixes

```css
/* Reserve space */
.ad-container {
  min-height: 250px;
}
img {
  width: 400px;
  height: 300px;
} /* Explicit dimensions */
```

### INP Fixes

```typescript
// Debounce expensive operations
const handleInput = debounce(search, 300)

// Yield to main thread
await task()
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 0))
await task2()

// Move to Web Worker for heavy computation
```

| Metric | Good   | Poor   |
| ------ | ------ | ------ |
| LCP    | ≤2.5s  | >4s    |
| INP    | ≤200ms | >500ms |
| CLS    | ≤0.1   | >0.25  |

## GDPR Consent

```typescript
// Load beacon only after consent
const consent = localStorage.getItem('analytics-consent')
if (consent === 'accepted') {
  const script = document.createElement('script')
  script.src = 'https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js'
  script.setAttribute('data-cf-beacon', '{"token": "TOKEN", "spa": true}')
  document.body.appendChild(script)
}
```

Alternative: Dashboard → "Enable, excluding visitor data in the EU"

## SPA Navigation

```html
<!-- REQUIRED for React/Vue/etc routing -->
<script data-cf-beacon='{"token": "TOKEN", "spa": true}' ...></script>
```

Without `spa: true`: only initial pageload tracked.

## Staging/Production Separation

```typescript
// Use env-specific tokens
const token = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_CF_ANALYTICS_TOKEN
// .env.production: production token
// .env.staging: staging token (or empty to disable)
```

## Bot Filtering

Dashboard → Filters → "Exclude Bot Traffic"

Filters: Search crawlers, monitoring services, known bots.  
Not filtered: Headless browsers (Playwright/Puppeteer).

## Ad-Blocker Impact

~25-40% of users may block `cloudflareinsights.com`. No official workaround.
Dashboard shows minimum baseline; use server logs for complete picture.

## Limitations

- No UTM parameter tracking
- No webhooks/alerts/API
- No custom beacon domains
- Max 10 non-proxied sites