See the impact of documenting reusable code

If you’re trying to understand the impact of your design system, analyzing the number of times members of your team have copied code is a great place to start. You can estimate how much time the team has saved by multiplying that number by the time it would have taken to write new code. And you could even estimate the amount of money saved by placing a value on the time savings.

Even if you aren’t using the data to show the value of your design system, data around how often code snippets are being copied allows you to identify which snippets are most valuable to the team and which are seldom used.

Luckily, getting all of this data is super easy. An event is triggered in Google Analytics every time one of your viewers copies a piece of code. Since the data is housed in Google Analytics, you can analyze the data based on time to see if there are changes in viewer behavior based on time.