Fail them faster
The other day, while driving along a local shortcut, I was faced with a ‘road closed’ sign and had to u-turn. Beyond the sign, there was no road where road had been yesterday.
Meet the Product analysts
We think videos are a great way to help introduce the teams working at GDS. In past months we've focused on the Transformation team, Finance team, Hosting and Infrastructure team, User research team and Procurement. Now it's the turn of the Product analysts.
Analysing the format of Inside Government's Policies
I’ve recently been embedded with the Inside Government team to work on understanding user behaviour through data analysis. One of my first tasks was to investigate the way that policies are being used and to identify any interesting or notable …
GOV.UK at 6 months old
Launched on 17 October 2012, GOV.UK has just celebrated 6 months of being live. In that time it's received 188 million visits and 546 million pageviews; and over 9 million searches have been made on the site. But what was …
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.
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. …
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 …
What was the evidence? Users’ information needs and analytics
We share learnings we got from analytics about what people are doing when visiting government web pages.
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