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Three months on – Inside Government’s traffic, demand and engagement in numbers
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Ross Ferguson - former Deputy Director for Portfolio Delivery on GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Data, GOV.UK
They can't tell the whole story but digital analytics are a useful and readily available source of information about how people are interacting with the GOV.UK platform and content.
Cold comfort farm
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 …
Government transaction costs - the story behind the data
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.
How much? Publishing the cost of government transactions
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 can judge value for themselves."
The Inside Government dashboard
Following the release of Inside Government, we’re releasing a dashboard to track progress and usage. New departments and organisations will be moving to Inside Government in the coming months. So far there are 17. The dashboard tracks the growth of …
Browser usage on GOV.UK
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. …
Inside Government - traffic, demand and engagement numbers so far
Posted by:
Ross Ferguson - former Deputy Director for Portfolio Delivery on GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
Data, GOV.UK
It’s early days for Inside Government but we wanted to share some analytical data on user traffic, demand and engagement. Inside Government is just three weeks old. We launched with five government organisations on 15 November and it felt good to …
Traffic trends to GOV.UK
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 …
Updating the GOV.UK Performance Dashboard
Today we’re releasing an updated version of our Performance Platform dashboard, the tool that shows analytics data about how GOV.UK is being used. Today’s updates focus on improving the usability and readability, building on prototypes that were built through the …
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