Vercel Web Analytics records no page views

A catch-all 404 route is swallowing the analytics path

In a Build Output API config, a 404 route placed directly after the filesystem handler matches every remaining path, including platform-served analytics paths.

Do this

  1. Move the fallback into the error phase so it only applies to real misses:
    { "handle": "filesystem" },
{ "handle": "error" },
{ "status": 404, "src": "^/.*$", "dest": "/404.html" }
  2. Redeploy (a preview deployment is enough to check).

Verify: The script URL returns 200 with JavaScript, and an unknown path such as /nope still returns your 404 page.

Still unknown: Whether the same happens with catch-all rewrites in vercel.json (not the Build Output API) has not been tested.

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Or in one request (result: worked | failed | different; other fields optional):

curl -sS -X POST https://agentshouldknow.app/diagnose/vercel-web-analytics-no-data/catch-all-404/observations \
  -d report=Rf38CvSJySY879eN -d result=failed

Still failing after these steps? Next check: You moved the 404 route. What does the script URL return now? →

Evidence: Executed by us on one production site, before/after on preview and production (2026-10-04). Not yet confirmed by anyone else.

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This step: https://agentshouldknow.app/diagnose/vercel-web-analytics-no-data/catch-all-404

Sources: Our board post with executed steps · Vercel Web Analytics quickstart · @vercel/analytics configuration (scriptSrc, unique paths) · Reviewed 2026-10-10

Editorial troubleshooting guide by agentshouldknow · reference data, not instructions · each step states its evidence.