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How people used GOV.UK in 2025

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How people used GOV.UK in 2025

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.

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Red asterisks and other innovations in the government publisher

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 2 July 2013 - Categories: Product changes

...on your content, the status of fact check requests, and notifications of documents newly tagged to your organisation, topic(s) and policies. And, ultimately, we plan to combine data from various...

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This sprint: improving publications and consultations

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 2 July 2013 - Categories: What we're working on

On the GOV.UK government team we're switching to two-week sprints as of tomorrow, Wednesday 3 July. Sprinting for a week at a time made sense while we were in the...

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Collaboration, iteration and new formats

Posted by: Natalie Shaw, Posted on: 28 June 2013 - Categories: How we work

We're currently redeveloping the Child Benefit tax calculator, a tool which takes care of a large number of very different user needs. It's the first bespoke calculator for GOV.UK, which will be a move away from the 'choose your own …

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A slight re-jig of the government navigation header

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 28 June 2013 - Categories: Product changes

The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed we recently re-jigged the order of items in the header of www.gov.uk/government Before: After: On the top row, "Departments", "Topics" and Worldwide" are...

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Publication pages: how to make them lovely

Posted by: Stephen Gill, Posted on: 27 June 2013 - Categories: Best practice

The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. There are a lot of publication pages on GOV.UK: over 40,000 at the last count. They look simple, but it can …

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Measuring changes in traffic: how to create a report

Posted by: Lana Gibson, Posted on: 26 June 2013 - Categories: User insights

The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Reports can be created in any standard Google Analytics report. To monitor changes in traffic to individual pages use the All …

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Force publish and compare versions - changes to publisher

Posted by: Louise Stone, Posted on: 26 June 2013 - Categories: Product changes

New 'force publish' tracking As most of you are now probably aware, there is a new prompt when anyone force publishes content. This feature (which went live as last week's...

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A bit of clarification on the use of 'quarter' and 'qtr' (or similar)

Posted by: Louise Stone, Posted on: 26 June 2013 - Categories: Best practice

The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We're bringing Inside Government content in line with mainstream on the...

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Sprint ending 25th June

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 19 June 2013 - Categories: What we're working on

...Gov on other parts of GOV.UK, like the travel alerts service. Knowing when the office is open is usually helpful to people before they rock up there. Cleaned up a...

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How search works

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 17 June 2013 - Categories: Product changes

The improved GOV.UK site search has been up for a few days now. It makes things better for users by headlining the top 3 search results, then showing the rest...

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