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...
Digital, Data and Technology
How is GOV.UK performing?
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, …
Building a performance platform for GOV.UK
...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...
Why IaaS?
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 …
Introducing a new supplier (Skyscape)
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Mark O'Neill - former Head of Innovation and Delivery, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Technology
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...
Shipping new formats: the GOV.UK ‘international trade’ release
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Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Technology
...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...
Transactions - finding the stories hidden in the data
...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...
From Solr to elasticsearch
Search is right at the centre of GOV.UK. It’s the main focus of the homepage and it appears in the corner of every single page. Many of our recent and upcoming apps such as licence finder also rely heavily on …
Bank Holiday story - is it really simpler, clearer, faster?
At GDS we iterate. One of the key contributions to that iteration is the post change checking to make sure that the users needs truly have been met and that the rules of the game have not changed. Peter Jordan, …
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Every year, central and local government serve citizens and businesses through one and a half billion transactions.
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