Updating GOV.UK’s crown
Updating GOV.UK’s crown
We have a new crown in our logo for the first time. Find out how we made this change and why.
The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance
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Matt Hobbs, Head of Frontend Development at the Government Digital Service (GDS) and Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Product changes
In this blog post, we explain the technical details of removing the jQuery library from GOV.UK’s public facing applications and the performance impact it had for our users.
How and why we removed jQuery from GOV.UK
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Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Best practice, Product changes
Removing jQuery from GOV.UK was a huge yet manageable task that led to improved code and performance gains across the site. This is how and why we did this work.
Rolling out a new design for browsing GOV.UK by topic
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Sam Dub, Product Lead on GOV.UK, GDS, Posted on:
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Finding things, Product changes
We tested our design changes to the GOV.UK topic pages, and now we’re rolling out to all our users. Read about the A/B test and what changes we’re making.
How we're saving publishers time by converting formatted text
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Tobi Ogunsina, Senior Product Manager, GDS, Kevin Dew, Lead Developer, GDS and Dilwoar Hussain, Senior Frontend Developer, GDS, Posted on:
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Content, Product changes
We’ve reduced the time and effort it takes to create content on GOV.UK by improving the pasting of formatted content. Here’s why and how we did it.
How we made it easier for publishers to share previews of their work
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Tobi Ogunsina, Senior Product Manager, GDS and Ollie Treend, Senior Developer, Posted on:
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Content, Product changes
We’ve improved shareable previews which makes it easier for publishers on GOV.UK to share drafts of their work. Here’s why we did it and how.
Opening up our code and logic for algorithmic decision-making
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Alessia Tosi, Data Scientist at GDS, Max Froumentin, Senior Developer at GDS and Dr Matthew Gregory, Lead Data Scientist at GDS, Posted on:
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Data
Read why we shared our Related Content recommender tool with the algorithmic transparency pilot.
Incident report: Unable to subscribe and unsubscribe from email alerts on 30 to 31 May 2022
On 30 to 31 May 2022 users of GOV.UK were unable to subscribe and unsubscribe from email alerts to page changes. Read to find out what happened and our response.
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.
Iterating the GOV.UK proposition: the first of our improvements for 2022
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Robert Rockstroh, GOV.UK Policy & Strategy Manager, Government Digital Service (GDS), Posted on:
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Product changes
We update the GOV.UK proposition in response to changing policy and government needs. Read on to find out what’s changed.
Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day on GOV.UK
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Adam Robertson, Product Manager - GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Accessibility, What we're working on
To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, here’s what GOV.UK has been doing in the last year to make the site accessible for all users.
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GOV.UK’s strategy for growth
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