Posts about the development and iteration of the GOV.UK website. You can find more information for GOV.UK publishers on the Inside GOV.UK blog.
Government services have been getting a growing number of complaints from people who feel misled by websites which charge for access to public services that are either free or much...
...contacts. It has come down almost every week since launch. You're making the improvements that make it less necessary for people to actually contact us, that they can just get...
A project team in GDS is working to make sure GOV.UK can meet the needs of all its users, including specialists and professionals, when it becomes a fully-realised “single domain for government” later this year. Neil Williams, who leads the …
In January, the government published some ‘red lines’ for IT contracts. At the time, Bill Crothers, the government Chief Procurement Officer, described the reasoning behind them. These rules apply to all central government, and should encourage competition whilst delivering value …
...is really important because people don't want to interact with us as a hobby, they have to interact with government or with agencies for some reason or another so we...
Government does a lot of stuff with maps, and if you like maps you might like to know about this clever trick for finding every single one that gets published on GOV.UK. Start off at the Publications page, which by …
Last year our boss Mike Bracken talked at the Code for America Summit in San Francisco, and spoke about the need to strike a balance between usability and security. There is a point beyond which over-zealous security gets in the …
Mobile use on GOV.UK has increased significantly since launch in October 2012, moving from around 15% to 23% of the overall audience.
In the content team we’ve developed new theme dashboards that give us a page-level indication of GOV.UK mainstream content performance. These dashboards are useful to everyone in GDS, as GOV.UK user data can reveal how people interact with government services, …
...share headline data on what browsers, operating systems and screen resolutions we've seen over the past month across the whole site. I hope it's useful. Rank Browser Jan-14 Jan-13 1...
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The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out how to download it for free on GOV.UK.