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...
Rather than running our own room full of servers, or worrying too much about physical computers, we have chosen to run GOV.UK on an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. What does that mean and why did we make that …
As you will know, we at GDS are building GOV.UK, currently in beta at www.gov.uk. As part of that process we have been thinking about the best way to host...
...of the complexity for people needing to look up EU commodity codes and other customs information when importing or exporting goods. We’ll be explaining more about this tool in a...
...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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