Frontend development is a growing role within government, and it’s a vital one, as the work is focused on the parts of government that citizens interact with most often. Iqbal Ahmed, frontend developer at GDS, outlines the main duties of the role.
We’ve enabled HTTP/2 on GOV.UK to help improve the site’s performance. Here we look at what HTTP/2 is, how it improves performance, and the impact it has had on our users.
The Government Digital Service recently updated guidance on frontend performance. We focus heavily on improving web performance as GOV.UK is accessed from various devices and connectivity. Here’s why you need to focus on it too.
We have previously written about how we have smoke tests running continuously which check that GOV.UK is responding properly. Late last year, we noticed that we were consistently seeing a problem with the part of GOV.UK served by the Performance …
Oliver Spindler, Tech Lead for front end development of the Performance Platform, explains how www.gov.uk/performance developed an innovative JavaScript workflow to allow performance data to be visible to everyone, while those on high-end browsers could have more powerful interactions. GOV.UK …
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