Learn about the key findings from our pilots of GOV.UK Chat, and how we’ve evaluated its performance ahead of the next phase.
I wrote on 22 May about our plans to complete the migration to Universal Analytics on 2 June. I’m delighted to say the mission is achieved. Why we've moved Universal Analytics includes new features, which we'll be exploring later in …
...continued to replace detailed guidance categories with topics and subtopics, and link mainstream browse through to topics reviewed 75% of all GOV.UK content as part of the ongoing work to...
This is an update on some work we’re doing to make it easier to find things on GOV.UK. As explained in the previous post, part of the solution to help users find what they need is to reduce the number …
Last year, Google released the enhanced version of Google Analytics, Universal Analytics. We’ve been running the Universal Analytics code in parallel with classic Google Analytics to test data accuracy. We’re happy with it and so we'll now switch the GOV.UK …
...changes to centrally-managed content including: annual uprating of fees and charges across 150+ URLs changes relating to the new tax year including rules for pensions, capital gains tax, marriage allowance,...
...help you see what's going on as the election approaches. Register to vote People can register to vote at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote up until 20 April. We'll continue to promote this on...
GOV.UK has done some significant things to improve the content that government publishes.
We’re testing and launching changes to the manuals format, as the first of our improvement plans. These improvements will roll out over the next few weeks. Search a manual We’re adding internal search of the contents of a manual, accessed …
In 2 years GOV.UK has changed a lot. However, the campaign format (as used for the fire kills campaign) hasn’t seen the same improvement as other areas. So we launched a discovery phase earlier this year to understand more about …
We’re planning to update the categories that Inside GOV.UK blog entries can be tagged to. We have 30 categories right now - some of which are duplicates (eg 'search' and 'search & navigation') or too vague (eg 'GOV.UK'). We’ve looked …
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.