CodePen Radio

#275: Measuring Things

Jul 6 '20

Show Description

Chris and Marie talk about how looking at the numbers behind changes can help guide and improve decisions we make at CodePen, including tools like Redash and Appcues, and how we use data to help sell PRO subscriptions.

Time Jumps

01:33 Being a numbers person
02:55 Using Redash
06:07 Finding out if changes work
11:09 Sponsor: Netlify
13:18 Nudging users in the right direction
26:09 Other types of analytics

Sponsor: Netlify

Netlify is the fastest way to build the fastest sites, Jamstack style. Netlify is a web host that hosts your static files, but for not-so-static sites. The static file hosting is just so that the site can be served over a global CDN as quickly and securely as is possible to do. Any kind of functionality is possible through things like built-in form processing, auth, and cloud functions, and the developer experience is second to none.