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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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A new tool to help users check someone’s criminal record

Posted by: Jane Eastwood, Posted on: 30 November 2016 - Categories: Content

Checking someone’s criminal record isn’t straightforward. In some cases, employers must check someone’s criminal record, but in others it’s a criminal offence to request a check.

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What we're working on: 28 November 2016

Posted by: Hemita Bhatti, Posted on: 28 November 2016 - Categories: What we're working on

This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 11 November 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …

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Incident report: GOV.UK DNS outage

Posted by: Dafydd Vaughan, Posted on: 15 November 2016 - Categories: Incident reports

This post is a report about 2 recent incidents on the GOV.UK website. We’re still working through our incident process, but due to the scale of these issues, we felt it was important to publish our report as soon as …

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What we're working on: 11 November 2016

Posted by: Hemita Bhatti, Posted on: 11 November 2016 - Categories: What we're working on

This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 28 October 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …

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Improving content about pensions

Posted by: raykhan, Posted on: 9 November 2016 - Categories: Content

Some of the content designers at GDS have recently worked on making GOV.UK mainstream pensions content clearer, reducing duplication and improving user journeys. This work’s been informed by research about retirement carried out by the GDS service team, plus research by …

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What's next for GOV.UK in quarter 3 (and what we did in quarter 2)

Posted by: Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on: 7 November 2016 - Categories: Vision and plans, What we're working on

...reality and it requires a cross-government effort. We need your help! For our improvements to navigation and orientation we’ve: worked with Department for Education and agencies to provide the information...

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GOV.UK's first quarterly showcase

Posted by: Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on: 3 November 2016 - Categories: Vision and plans, What we're working on

On 10 October, we had the first of our GOV.UK quarterly showcase events. This is a new regular event to keep the people who most need to know informed about our performance, progress and plans. The session included: introductions from …

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Simplified tagging infrastructure and tools - done.

Posted by: Holly Garrett, Posted on: 31 October 2016 - Categories: Content, Finding things, What we're working on

The Finding Things team have completed their mission to rebuild and simplify GOV.UK’s tagging infrastructure!

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What we're working on: 28 October 2016

Posted by: Hemita Bhatti, Posted on: 28 October 2016 - Categories: What we're working on

This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 14 October 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …

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Making it easier to understand smart answer logic

Posted by: Ben Andrews, Posted on: 27 October 2016 - Categories: Content, Product changes

One part of the Content Tools team mission is to help content designers within GDS be more effective at what they do. To make marginal gains in a variety of areas that collectively add up to a lot. The following …

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