User insights help us to understand how we can develop GOV.UK to ensure it continues to meet people’s needs and work well for everyone. Learn about some of 2025’s main findings across the GOV.UK website, app and social media channels.
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 15 April 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 …
...to provide an update on our progress... To recap, the purpose of rebuilding the platform is to ensure that GOV.UK is scalable, secure and easy to work on. GOV.UK currently...
The Insolvency Service approached us last year with the idea of creating some content to help people in debt find out what options are available to them. We thought it would be useful too, and suggested we develop it together. …
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 1 April 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 …
We're changing how tagging works behind the scenes to allow us to create a single way of categorising content ('taxonomy') for all content on GOV.UK. In October we laid out our plan to improve navigation on GOV.UK. It consists of …
Getting the title of your content right is vital. When you get it right, users can find it and use it. When you get it wrong, it can really cause problems.
In December last year we were visited by members of the Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies, the Surrey Police and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner of Norfolk. Here’s what they said about their visit and how they’ve used …
...to 'unwithdraw' content after it's been withdrawn - this is a new feature for managing editors added guidance on attachment file names - this is to make sure that there's...
Here are a few blog posts from the rest of GDS that I've found interesting this week (and you might too).
To help us analyse and measure the performance of our content we use Google Analytics, which records the pages users visit. This year we’ve made improvements to GOV.UK that allows us to comprehensively record information about users’ interactions across the …
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out what’s been happening, and what’s coming next, on the GDS blog.