Performance Analyst at GOV.UK
While most of us are tucking into a turkey, or watching the mandatory re-run of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, some people take the time to go onto GOV.UK. Traffic on the site was at 20% of normal levels, but that …
I’ve recently been analysing how users navigate their way around GOV.UK and want to share the findings. There were more than 56 million visits to GOV.UK in September 2014, a new monthly record. My task was to summarise where users …
We’ve previously blogged about how we’ve been using Tableau to see how users look at departments and policy content on GOV.UK. We mentioned we wanted to make data more available to digital publishing teams, so we’re really excited to share …
We recently blogged about using Tableau to visualise how 'departments and policy' content is being viewed on GOV.UK based on data for May.
We're using a new data visualisation tool called Tableau to reveal new information on how 'departments and policy' content is being viewed on GOV.UK. The GDS departments and policy content team currently uses Google Analytics to track how content is viewed and the effects of …
Before Christmas, Neil blogged about how we’d introduced social sharing buttons as an experiment to four of our content types. Now we’ve had the chance to look at the first 10 weeks of data, we wanted to report back. Why …
Earlier in the month, we introduced a feature to GOV.UK which allowed users to get a sneak preview of CSV files without having to download them. When we wrote about the change we promised to give you some early feedback …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. A simple ‘how-to’ guide on understanding basic page level metrics on GOV.UK. Use it to understand how your content is performing …
We’ve just started to look in a bit more detail about how users are interacting with news pages on GOV.UK. But we already have some interesting early findings, which we wanted to share. Our data is based on the 608 …
Visualising analytics data can help us see trends and gain insights into things that aren’t possible to see just by looking at the numbers in our standard analytics interface. The diagram above (and here in an interactive form) is one …
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.