8 March 2026

Reading Recovery, Not Just Failure

Failed steps matter. So do the paths that bring people back to a successful finish.

Notebook with charts and a pen

Teams often chart where sessions die and stop there. Recovery analysis looks at users who hit an error or dead end and still completed the job later in the same visit—or the next one.

Those paths reveal helpful empty states, support macros that work, and product affordances worth amplifying. Quality monitoring without recovery is only half the story.

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