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.
...other colleagues across government, we’ve also: enabled GDS content designers to create short ('friendly') URLs without the need for developer input fixed a bug that stopped the Whitehall publishing application...
...weeks we expect to: complete SaBrE and Planning inspectorate transitions complete our improvement work on Emergency travel documents content upgrade Ruby and Rails for the static app alert out of...
A detailed guide is a content type used for answering specific, task-oriented user needs or providing advice to specialist or professional audiences. There are more than 4,000 detailed guides published on GOV.UK, on topics ranging from calculating your school milk …
Editors often want to be able to preview their content as it will appear on the site, before making it live. Some of our publishing tools support this – for example Whitehall Publisher – but they’re not very consistent, and many …
...to www.gov.uk/guidance/balancing-water-resources allow GDS editors to withdraw and redirect statistics announcements consistently send organisational data to Google Analytics for all pages display an unsupported browser warning message for publishing tools...
Three weeks ago, we held a workshop on tagging content to the new policy pages with managing editors from government. It became clear that the tagging guidance for all of GOV.UK is now out of date. For those who couldn’t …
...keep the site accurate, available and secure, and to meet the most pressing needs of end users: made improvements to user journeys from GOV.UK to HMRC online services published updates...
For the first time on GOV.UK, we published the Budget as a web page. We know that publications work better as HTML publications rather than PDFs. They’re better for search, better for mobile and comply with open standards. Let’s HTML …
...users can find their correct local councils Mission: 16 content themes improved by October completed improvement work on driving-related content, which included refining the 'contact DVLA' smart answer to point...
It was 35 degrees on the day I started at the Treasury. Greece was in crisis and the Chancellor’s Summer Budget was 7 days away. The atmosphere was intense. I went there to draft the Budget news story and to …