We’ve overhauled the GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Find out what’s changed, why this is a major improvement for government publishers, and what we learned from testing.
The first government agencies have now started their move onto GOV.UK. There's a big challenge ahead. This stage of the transition will bring more than 300 agencies and arm’s length bodies (ALBs) into a single website, GOV.UK. Once it's completed, GOV.UK will see …
Visualising analytics data can help us see trends and gain insights into things that aren’t possible to see just by looking at the numbers in our standard analytics interface. The diagram above (and here in an interactive form) is one …
There are 3 main reasons why smart answers, tools and calculators take longer to update than normal (what we call flat) content. They are often more complicated This isn’t to say that flat content isn’t complicated - translating complex tax …
We have evangelised about the importance of analysing search data to help define user needs and measure the effectiveness of GOV.UK content. Unfortunately, one of the most important sources of data is drying up: what people searched for in Google …
...play catch-up, so we'll probably do this for every sprint from now until we've got them back in check. Multiple, ordered HTML versions with metadata. Ongoing from last sprint, we're...
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. So over the past few weeks, we’ve been talking to a bunch of government organisations about updating your homepages to follow …
...correspondence with ministers and officials (like decision letters). These still fit the definition, albeit less clearly. In the middle of that scale sit things like transparency data and responses to...
...2014 national curriculum, published yesterday by the Department for Education (DFE), are all in our HTML publications format. Our new, national curriculum-approved, style for displaying fractions It's a natively digital...
In the last few weeks, we've been taking a look at how people browse and navigate GOV.UK. We've just made a start with some HTML prototypes and research in the usability lab.
Right from the beginning of GOV.UK, we knew we wanted to provide a single place where users could get help using the site. We called it 'support', as the sections within it were broad. The content was originally gathered from product …
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out how to download it for free on GOV.UK.