Matt Hobbs, Head of Frontend Development at the Government Digital Service (GDS)

The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance

Matt Hobbs, Head of Frontend Development at the Government Digital Service (GDS) and Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK, 15 August 2022 - Product changes

In this blog post, we explain the technical details of removing the jQuery library from GOV.UK’s public facing applications and the performance impact it had for our users.

What we’ve learned from one year of Real User Monitoring data on GOV.UK

Matt Hobbs, Head of Frontend Development at the Government Digital Service (GDS), 13 June 2022 - How we work, What we're working on

We do a deep dive into what we've learned from the Real User Monitoring (RUM) data that we started collecting in June last year.

How Real User Monitoring will improve GOV.UK for everyone

Matt Hobbs, Head of Frontend Development at the Government Digital Service (GDS), 16 June 2021 - GDS team, How we work, Product changes

In this blog post we explain how Real User Monitoring (RUM) gives us an understanding of why a page is performing badly and how to fix it.

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