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The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance
In the first blog post we covered "How and why we removed jQuery from GOV.UK", let’s now turn our attention to what performance difference it has made for users. Please read that blog post before this...
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How we’re preparing for the migration to Google Analytics 4
Google Analytics (GA) is a web analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic from users. It’s used across the world, and there are significant changes coming to GA next year. This will...
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Why and how we updated the GOV.UK campaign templates
While GOV.UK looks like a single website to its millions of users, it’s actually made up of a number of different domains. These different domains serve different needs. For instance, www.gov.uk is...
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How GOV.UK is upgrading to Google Analytics 4
Everything we do on GOV.UK is centred around providing the best possible experience for our users. We want the site to be fast and straightforward for everyone. To achieve this we need to understand...
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Improving the design of subtopic pages
One of the main ways people navigate around GOV.UK is by topic-based browsing. Topics are a set of pages covering a wide range of services and guidance, which users can then drill down into and find...
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Improving how users search for local information on GOV.UK
There are many places on GOV.UK where users enter their postcode to find services local to them. These include services provided by their local authority, such as paying council tax or disposing of...
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Making it easier to add images on GOV.UK
GDS' mission is to design and protect the user experience of government. GOV.UK is not only used by 11 million users each week, but also by over two thousand civil servants to publish information in...
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Undertaking GOV.UK's largest software infrastructure project
GOV.UK is an essential part of living, studying and working in the UK. For its millions of users, GOV.UK appears as a single website, where people can move seamlessly from one page or service to...
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Moving our most-used publishing tool to the GOV.UK design system
GOV.UK has a vast website estate. There are more than 700,000 pages covering an enormous range of topics to deliver our mission of being the single, trusted online home for the UK government. The...
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Updating GOV.UK’s crown
As of today, GOV.UK has a new crown in its logo. This blog post explains why we’ve made the change and how we’ve done it. Why the crown has changed Top row is St Edward’s Crown represented on GOV.UK’s...
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