The new normal for GOV.UK
This post is part of a series. See the introduction here: New normal, new teams, new goals. Since the beta release of GOV.UK in January 2012, the GOV.UK team has been hard at work building, scaling up and iterating the …
New normal, new teams, new goals
...meantime: we’ve continued to maintain the site and make valuable improvements as usual, prioritising the most urgent and important things sprint by sprint). Image by Dean Hochman. Neil Williams is...
GOV.UK Performance Analytics community
Why we need a community There are more than 350 analytics users across government departments, agencies and arm’s length bodies (A/ALBs). They want information on analytics techniques and best practice; we at GDS want to learn what different types of …
Content clinic 19 May: what we talked about
On 19 May 2015, we held a content clinic at the Department for Education, with 15 editors from 8 organisations. Quantitative content analysis To start, Jonathan Richardson spoke about Defra’s smarter guidance programme, and how he’s built a tool to …
Upgrade to Universal Analytics: done!
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 …
What we’re working on: 5 June 2015
...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...
Consolidating and linking up browse categories on GOV.UK
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 …
Upgrading to Universal Analytics
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 …
What we’re working on: 11 May 2015
...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,...
How GOV.UK is handling the election
...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...
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Download the GOV.UK app
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out how to download it for free on GOV.UK.