Chris Coyier

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Developer · Born Aug 26, 1980 · Male

Howdy! I'm a web designer and developer. I built CSS-Tricks, a website all about building websites, going strong for 10 years. I'm the co-founder of CodePen, a playground for front-end web development. It’s a social development environment for front end designers and developers.

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From “Learning to Use Google Analytics More Effectively at CodePen”

“Instead of implementing outbound link tracking ourselves, we used the autotrack plugin to do this for us. Autotrack comes with a set of plugins for tracking common user interactions. Theres a bunch of things it can help with, but the main one we wanted was the outboundLinkTracker plugin.”

Tagged: Google Analytics, Analytics, CodePen, Frontend

“The easiest way to send custom dimension data with your hits is to set their values on the tracker object. Since all hits sent from a tracker include all the key/value data it's currently storing, setting custom dimensions on the tracker will ensure those values get sent with all future hits.”

Tagged: CodePen, Google Analytics, Analytics, Frontend

From “Strategies for Cache-Busting CSS”

“Hand-in-hand with browser caching is cache busting. Say the browser has the CSS file cached for one year (not uncommon). Then you want to change the CSS. You need a strategy for breaking the cache and forcing the browser to download a new copy of the CSS.”

Tagged: CSS, Cache Busting, Frontend

“Do wizards give conference talks about progressive enchantment?”

Tagged: Dev Jokes

Chris Coyier

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