Your product tour ran. Did anyone finish it?
The article discusses the importance of tracking user engagement with product onboarding tours, emphasizing that most teams fail to monitor whether users complete them. Trailguide Pro offers built-in analytics to visualize completion funnels and identify drop-off points, helping teams improve tour effectiveness. It also integrates feedback steps and sentiment analysis to understand user confusion and close the loop between product behavior and user experience.
- ▪Most teams don't track whether users complete onboarding tours.
- ▪Trailguide Pro shows a completion funnel with step-by-step drop-off rates without requiring additional event setup.
- ▪Feedback steps in tours collect user ratings and comments, with sentiment analysis and keyword themes provided by Product Signals.
- ▪The same JSON file powers both the user tour and automated Playwright tests in CI.
- ▪Tours are stored in the codebase, enabling version control, testing, and fixes directly in code.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3802868) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Trailguide Posted on May 1 Your product tour ran. Did anyone finish it? #testing #javascript #webdev #productivity The first article I wrote about Trailguide was about why tours should live in your repo as JSON files. The engineering case: version control, CI testing, no vendor lock-in. This one is about what happens after you ship a tour. The part most teams skip You add an onboarding tour. Users start seeing it. You move on to the next feature.
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