Over 700,000 people receive email updates from GOV.UK. These notifications help people find out when government information they’re interested in changes. At GOV.UK, we’re working on making it easier for people to sign up to receive the notifications they need, …
This post outlines 2 recent production issues on GOV.UK and how they were resolved. We’ve blogged in the past about what happens when things go wrong on GOV.UK and how we classify and prioritise incidents. What happened From around 2:50pm …
At Government Digital Service, everything we build must be accessible. It’s one of our design principles, 'This is for everyone': Accessible design is good design. Everything we build should be as inclusive, legible and readable as possible. [...] The people …
This post is about 2 incidents that affected our travel advice pages, and how they were resolved. We’ve posted before about what happens when things go wrong on GOV.UK, and how we classify and prioritise incidents on GOV.UK.
On GOV.UK, we’ve just completed our 7th wave of usability benchmarking. It’s something we do every 6 months to get an insight into whether our efforts to improve GOV.UK are having a positive impact on the overall user experience.
This post is about two severity 1 incidents caused by problems with our third-party suppliers, and how they were resolved. The incidents affected the availability of GOV.UK.
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out what’s been happening, and what’s coming next, on the GDS blog.