Data
You can find more information about data on the dedicated Data in government blog.
Last July, GDS published a full list of all the transactional services that the Government offers to citizens and business, along with their annual volume of activity. It was the first time the Government had ever done this.
Francis Maude, Minister for Cabinet Office: "Governments talk a lot about delivering value for taxpayers. Yet most of the time they aren’t very clear about what they mean. Now taxpayers...
...expecting an increase in traffic over the coming months, but each department is unique so this increase won’t always be the same. Top policies Top policies viewed on Inside Government...
Earlier this year James Weiner and Ben Welby wrote about the browsers and devices that we are supporting on GOV.UK. We made these decisions using browser/device data from various sources including Directgov, BusinessLink, central government departments and several other big sites. …
...visits to GOV.UK, which is possibly due to the desk-based professional-practitioner nature of Inside Government’s user base. We've been curious to know what content users come to Inside Government for....
We’ve been monitoring the volume of traffic to GOV.UK since launch. We want to ensure that the people who used to rely on Directgov and Business Link can still find the reliable and authoritative information and services they need. As the GOV.UK dashboard …
...These allow you to get the numbers being shown, rather than approximating from the scale. The hovers are important for us to enable our Design Principle #4: Do the hard...
Last week our new digital service GOV.UK moved out of public beta and replaced the two main government websites, Directgov and Business Link. As my colleague Mike Bracken explained at the time, GOV.UK is focussed on the needs of users, …
...had something plausible, we'd take it back to the owners of the data as soon as possible for feedback. We wanted to start working with live code as quickly as...
...be helpful to group the services according to their main function. As well as helping us to manage an unwieldy list, we wanted to look across Departments for common themes...