GOV.UK’s most-viewed content gives us crucial guidance about what our users are looking for and how we can develop our services. From a historic Coronation to key tax updates and a new system of emergency alerts, here were some of 2023’s big moments.
Last week we refreshed the content about the driving test on GOV.UK. It's the biggest change that's been made to it since the beta of GOV.UK launched back in February 2012.
DVLA’s contact centre is the largest single-site contact centre in government and it gets over 1 million calls each month. The volume has increased since the changes to important services such as vehicle tax, and scrapping the paper counterpart driving …
During the summer months, we worked with the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) to improve the content on GOV.UK for lorry and bus drivers.
In the Core team (one of 4 product teams at GOV.UK) we look after the development and maintenance of many applications behind GOV.UK, including Whitehall Publisher. We collect lots of data about the usage of GOV.UK and how it performs …
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 …
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 …
We’ve set up a trending searches dashboard to show search terms that people are looking for more than usual in GOV.UK site search. This can help you to spot emerging or rising user needs and react quickly to make sure …
During the recent GOV.UK firebreak, we made some improvements to info pages. These are the ‘shadow’ pages that exist for almost every page on GOV.UK. They show user needs for that page and metrics about how well the page meets …
This clinic was a little different from previous ones. There was a lot to show so there were more presentations than usual. Visualising publications data Ashraf Chohan showed visualisations of data about how many publication content items are published and …