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Today we released our third major update to the Transactions Explorer tool. The complete list shows the breadth of transactional services provided by the government, from tax-based transactions with volumes in the millions per year, to applications to burn heather …
Phil Buckley, Product Manager of the Performance Platform, writes: I’m very proud to announce the latest release of the Performance Platform. Building on the performance statistics we have for GOV.UK, this release powers the dashboards for all the different Licences, …
I’ve recently been embedded with the Inside Government team to work on understanding user behaviour through data analysis. One of my first tasks was to investigate the way that policies are being used and to identify any interesting or notable …
Launched on 17 October 2012, GOV.UK has just celebrated 6 months of being live. In that time it's received 188 million visits and 546 million pageviews; and over 9 million searches have been made on the site. But what was …
As one of the product analysts for GOV.UK, search is my main focus. Recently I built a handy tool to get an overview of Google search results, to help us review and optimise our content. I thought it was worth …
One of the GDS design principles is 'design with data'. Front end developers need to know what the current browser landscape looks like and in which browsers they should be regularly testing new features. To help us do that, I created …
...all the items, and is great for sorting. The horizontal axis of the scatterplot scales automatically between the minimum and maximum engagement scores for that format as we’re usually interested...
Last summer we built a prototype of a tool designed to help departments make better use of their data to improve public services. In October that prototype became the first GOV.UK dashboard and by December a second dashboard had been …
...highly, we thought it would be interesting to identify the top 10 most visited publications, which are: /government/publications/hs2-revised-line-of-route-maps - 91,197 page views /government/publications/high-speed-rail-investing-in-britains-future-phase-two-the-route-to-leeds-manchester-and-beyond - 25,702 /government/publications/national-planning-policy-framework--2 - 23,770 /government/publications/50-ways-to-save-examples-of-sensible-savings-in-local-government -...
It’s been cold and snowy. The weather has impacted on people’s lives across the UK, but has it affected people’s interaction with GOV.UK? Tara Stockford and I did some quick analysis of traffic and trends over the last couple of …
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