How we developed GOV.UK’s strategy for growth
Find out how we developed our GOV.UK growth strategy, and the data, techniques and tools that we used.
How we work
Updating GOV.UK when there is a machinery of government change
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Esther Woods, Content Designer, GOV.UK Content team, Isabel Attwood, Content Designer, GOV.UK Content team and Imogen Rowley, Senior Content Designer, GOV.UK Content team, Posted on:
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How we work, What we're working on
You might’ve spotted a change in the number of government departments. Here’s how we supported this change, updated GOV.UK to reflect it and what we learned from doing so.
How we ran a discovery for GOV.UK publishing permissions
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Hannah Jump, Senior Content Designer, Government Digital Service and Helen Wiles, Senior User Researcher, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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How we work, User insights, Vision and plans
We’re always looking to improve GOV.UK for users, including government publishers. Here is how we identified some of the next improvements to the publishing experience.
Improving how users search for local information on GOV.UK
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Jonathan Nichols, Lead Product Manager, Posted on:
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How we work, Product changes, Working with us
We simplified our address finding system using the Ordnance Survey’s Places API. Here’s how we did it and the impact it’s had on GOV.UK and its users.
How GOV.UK is upgrading to Google Analytics 4
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Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK and Ian James, Lead frontend developer, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Data, How we work, Product changes
Moving across to Google Analytics 4 is a major project. Here’s how we did it and what we’ll be doing to ensure minimal impact to the performance of GOV.UK.
Why and how we updated the GOV.UK campaign templates
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Inderjeet Singh, Senior Product Manager at GOV.UK, Government Digital Service and Eela Muhaimin, Policy Advisor, Priority Projects Unit, Cabinet Office, Posted on:
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How we work, Product changes
There’s a new and improved campaign template for communicators across government to use on GOV.UK. Read what’s changed and how we’ve tested it.
What we’ve learned from one year of Real User Monitoring data on GOV.UK
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Matt Hobbs, Head of Frontend Development at the Government Digital Service (GDS), Posted on:
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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.
Replacing the scroll tracker on GOV.UK
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Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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How we work, What we're working on
We explain what scroll tracking is, why the original scroll tracker wasn't fit for purpose, why we built a new one, and some of the complexities involved.
Updating the GOV.UK homepage
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Sam Dub, Product Lead on GOV.UK, GDS, Owen Jones, Frontend Developer at GDS and Mia Allers, Senior Graphic Designer at GDS, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Finding things, How we work, Product changes
We’ve made design changes to the GOV.UK homepage to improve its accessibility and make it a better user experience for the millions of people that visit it every week.
How and why we switched to Continuous Deployment on GOV.UK
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Ben Thorner, Developer, Government Digital Service and Jonathan Nichols, Lead Product Manager, Posted on:
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How we work, Product changes
How we trialled and standardised a new automatic deployment process for GOV.UK, which we're now rolling out across the platform.
Related content and links
The GOV.UK roadmap
Read the GOV.UK roadmap to find out what the GOV.UK team are working on. It shows what we’ve recently shipped, what we’re working on and what we’re looking into.
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