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A year of Google Analytics 4 on GOV.UK

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A year of Google Analytics 4 on GOV.UK

Discover what we’ve learned in the year since the GOV.UK website fully migrated to Google Analytics 4, and how our use of data is evolving as GOV.UK expands to multiple digital channels.

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Using topic pages to organise content on GOV.UK

Posted by: Mia Allers, Senior Graphic Designer at GDS, Posted on: 1 November 2018 - Categories: Content, Finding things, Product changes
A screen shot of the 'Education, training and skills' topic page

Users can struggle to find what they need when they navigate through GOV.UK. Topic pages will help them find what they're looking for more easily.

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Introducing a simpler, data-informed publishing experience

Posted by: Robert Rockstroh, GOV.UK Policy & Strategy Manager, Government Digital Service (GDS), Posted on: 23 October 2018 - Categories: Content, Product changes
Members from the publishing workflow and data teams discussing sketches for the new interface.

...A prototype of the features of the new markdown editor Accessing content data Our content data tool will provide publishers and organisations across government with the data they need to...

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How we're improving publishing times

Posted by: Steve Messer - Product Manager, GOV.UK and Deborah Chua, Posted on: 10 September 2018 - Categories: Product changes, Vision and plans
Steve looking at the publishing pipeline on a whiteboard

For the past few weeks, we've been working on making improvements to the GOV.UK publishing pipeline. Here's what we've done so far and what's coming next.

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Changes to organisation pages for both publishers and users

Posted by: Ganesh Senthi, Senior Product Manager, GOV.UK Data Labs, Posted on: 14 June 2018 - Categories: Product changes, Vision and plans
Organisation management process

Over the coming months, we are working to improve sections of GOV.UK that relate to government departments and agencies (what we define as ‘organisations’).

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Running a content improvement project

Posted by: Polly Green - Senior Content Designer, GOV.UK, Posted on: 6 June 2018 - Categories: Content, Working with us
Trello board for planning improvement work

In the first 2 quarters of 2017 to 2018, some of GOV.UK’s content designers led improvement projects with government departments on specific content areas. The goal was to improve our understanding of user needs and iterate content to meet those …

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Firebreaks on GOV.UK

Posted by: Alan Wright and catherinegordy, Posted on: 3 May 2018 - Categories: GDS team, How we work, What we're working on
GOV.UK team looking at project work

Firebreaks on GOV.UK are similar to Google’s 20% time or Spotify’s hack week. For 1 week every 3 months, teams disband and everyone is given a chance to have some self-directed time to improve GOV.UK. We’ve had 3 firebreaks now: …

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Incident roundup - part 3

Posted by: Hong Nguyen, Posted on: 26 April 2018 - Categories: Incident reports

This post is a roundup of 5 incidents that GOV.UK encountered between August 2017 and February 2018.

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What we learnt from creating API documentation

Posted by: Emma Beynon and patrickopoosun, Posted on: 4 April 2018 - Categories: Product changes

One of the objectives of our Q2 mission was to create documentation for the GOV.UK content application programming interface (API). This is a public API that allows machines to access and republish GOV.UK content. Before we started the project The …

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Bringing email back in house

Posted by: Alan Maddrell, Posted on: 14 March 2018 - Categories: Product changes
Screenshot of new GOV.UK email

Over three quarters of a million people use GOV.UK emails to find out when content is published or updated on the site. We used to use an external service to send these. We've built a system using GOV.UK Notify, a …

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How we do team selection on GOV.UK

Posted by: Alan Wright, Posted on: 7 March 2018 - Categories: How we work
A team charter

This post explores how we plan who works on which team on GOV.UK, and how that process has evolved throughout 2017-2018. 

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