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.
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’ve recently upgraded the ‘featuring’ interface for GOV.UK publishers. For the first time, you can promote items that live outside the …
From time to time, we use this blog (Inside GOV.UK) to publish up to date guidance about how to use features we've added to the site. However, a few of you have said that although this works OK for timely updates, it's a real hassle …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. GOV.UK has different content areas that deal with different audiences and topics. One term we use a lot when talking about …
Some things we've done in the past couple of weeks released a new, unified site-search built an Alpha of the first HMRC Manual on GOV.UK started work on a manual format for all departments and agencies to use added editioning …
The process of transition doesn’t end when a site moves to GOV.UK, in fact the days after switch-over are crucial. People use the Transition Tool for different tasks before and after a site moves. Before transition, it’s all about publishing …
We’ve already written a post about the new organisation template and our reasons for creating it. This is an update about the impact of using the new layout for DVLA. After the search page and the home page, DVLA's organisation …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. I spent last week at the Department for Transport, working with the content designers there. Ahead of this, we came up …
We’ve just launched 37 new content analytics dashboards onto the Performance Platform. We hope they will help people in government departments and agencies see at a glance how their content is performing. This blogpost tells you why we’ve built them, and …
The next GOV.UK content clinic is on Wednesday 28 May, 3pm to 4:30pm at the Department for Transport (DFT). Book a place If you're using Whitehall Publisher to publish content on GOV.UK, this clinic is for you. Go to Eventbrite and choose the …
Government publishers can now more accurately describe to users what’s happened to ‘closed’ organisations. This blogpost tells you how we’ve modelled the changes, and what government publishers should do now. When ‘closed’ isn’t quite right Every now and then, government adjusts …
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.