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.
...the biggest services the Government offers its citizens. Taken together, there are over a billion transactions through these 44 services every single year. That's over 88% of the transactions handled...
...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. …
...most popular pages, there are three specific policies alongside two publications and one news item. There are also three topics in the top 20, which is another Inside Government innovation,...
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 …
...yet still provide the detail when you need it. Example of hover on our daily visitors graph There’s another bonus to having these hovers - they encourage people to interact...
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, …
...a prototype for how we might use data to improve public services. His number one goal was to initially show how GOV.UK usage data could represent success or failure in...
...Government services? Were high-volume services more likely to be a certain type than low-volume services? Did some Departments specialise in particular service types? Findings Taking a sample of services, we...
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