# Measuring Your Site's Responsive Breakpoint Usage

DevFeed: [Measuring Your Site's Responsive Breakpoint Usage](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/measuring-your-site-s-responsive-breakpoint-usage-29515.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://philipwalton.com/articles/measuring-your-sites-responsive-breakpoint-usage/>)

Published: 2014-12-23T06:38:36Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Philip Walton](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/philip-walton.md>)

Topics: [Responsive Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/responsive-design.md>), [Media Queries](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/media-queries.md>), [Google Analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google-analytics.md>), [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [google-analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-analytics.md>), [properties](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/properties.md>), [responsive-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/responsive-design.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains why responsive sites should measure breakpoint usage in addition to device usage. It describes using custom dimensions and metrics in Google Analytics to track breakpoint-related user data, with concepts and code samples intended to apply to other analytics platforms as well.

## Source excerpt

Most web analytics tools will give you a lot of information about your users' devices. These insights can be extremely useful for measuring trends and are particularly important if you have a separate mobile and desktop site or a different design for Android and iOS. But if you've built your site responsively, device information just doesn't tell the whole story.