News analysis: early edition
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 …
User insights
A tool to capture user needs (and measure performance)
A small team at GDS is working on the User Needs project. The first thing we’re doing is building Maslow - a tool to capture user needs. In the next few weeks, agencies that are transitioning to GOV.UK will be able to …
GOV.UK one year on: twice as many visits
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A few weeks ago, GOV.UK had more than 2 million visits in one day for the first time, on Monday 30 September. It wasn’t long before we reached another milestone, with more than 10 million visits in one week from …
Show us the evidence
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Alice Newton - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Departmental editors often get in contact with us to make requests for changes. We welcome suggestions, but usually we need to collect more evidence before we can make a decision. So we were grateful when No 10 asked us to …
GOV.UK one year on: 6 million visitors a week
GOV.UK celebrates its first birthday today. We’ve written about some of the most interesting data we’ve seen this year in the run-up. GOV.UK averages over 6 million unique visitors per week and over 9 million visits. That’s twice as many …
GOV.UK one year on: 10,000 new organ donors
Back in August, Tom Loosemore wrote about some A/B testing we've been doing alongside colleagues from the NHS, Department for Transport, Department for Health and the Behavioural Insights Team from the Cabinet Office. We wanted to learn how GOV.UK might …
GOV.UK one year on: the Andy Murray effect
GOV.UK celebrates its first birthday on Thursday. We’ll be writing about some of the most interesting data we’ve seen this year in the run-up. Visitors normally come to GOV.UK to get things done or find out information to help with …
GOV.UK one year on: 1 in 5 visits is from a mobile
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GOV.UK celebrates its first birthday on Thursday. We'll be writing about some of the most interesting data we've seen this year in the run-up. 1 in 5 visits to GOV.UK are made on a mobile phone - that’s a third …
Royal Mail shares: we post GOV.UK traffic figures
Over the past week, there’s been a huge amount of media interest in the sale of Royal Mail shares. We’ve seen this trend reflected in high numbers of visits to GOV.UK - in fact, at times, almost one in three …
User needs workshops: testing and trialling
We held our first few user needs workshops with agencies at the end of September, in order to test the format of the sessions. Thanks to feedback from both agency and GDS colleagues following these trials, we’ve iterated different versions …
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