Learn about our plans for GOV.UK Chat, the AI-powered chat system we’ve built as an easier, quicker way to interact with government.
Last week, Peter Jordan looked at how the warm weather and other external events affected traffic to GOV.UK. With temperatures getting hotter and hotter, what was the effect on our heat-related content?
This fortnight, the sprint themes for the government section are going to be…. 1. Preparing for all ALB consultations to be on GOV.UK GDS and departments have agreed, in consultation with the Consultation Principles Review team, that all central government …
We're really impressed with departmental homepages at the moment. There's some very strong imagery being used, to help engage users and encourage them to explore further. In this post, we thought we'd feature some examples of best practice – and share …
Tomorrow's release of the GOV.UK government app will include the ability to control the order of attachments on a publication page.
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. I'll tell you where you can stick your FOI reference numbers. It's right here, in this metadata field called "Unique reference":
...the new about pages. New design The design has changed considerably, losing lots of white space and positioning the logo (for events that have one) in a less obtrusive place....
So, how many people would rather watch Wimbledon than visit a government website? Over the past few weeks we've been trying to find out the answer to this - and similar questions - as we've looked at how external events …
...infrastructure from malicious attacks and to cope with peak demand. The default cache expiry on all existing pages in the government section is currently set to 15 mins. That means...
...png ppt pptx rdf rtf txt xls xlsx xml zip It's likely we'll add more as needed, which means this blog post will date. But you can check the very...
...reasons, and alternative destinations All the acronyms Most government organisations have acronyms and now in most admin drop-downs where you are selecting an org you can use the org's acronym...
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.