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Every interesting product decision starts with the same question: what are people actually doing on my site? Which buttons get clicked, how far visitors scroll, where they hesitate, and where they quietly leave. You can answer all of this with a few well-placed lines of JavaScript and no heavyweight SDK required.

In this guide, we'll build a small, dependency-free behavior-tracking layer from scratch.…