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.
This post is about choosing user stories to work on from a product backlog, and the lessons I learned from taking on big pieces of work.
We're looking to significantly increase the size of our teams as we plan for the next phases of GOV.UK, GOV.UK Verify, the Performance Platform and other GDS projects. There are loads of different types of work to do and we're …
We have a grid we use on GOV.UK which is based on percentage width columns (multiples of either 25% or 33% of the container width) with a 30px gutter between the grid columns. The columns on narrower devices shrink appropriately …
Occasionally we like to call attention to links and other short-form substance from around GDS (we last published one of these in January 2014).
GOV.UK has used a Content Delivery Network (CDN) since its transition from beta to live in October 2012. When the contract with our first CDN provider came to an end in September 2013, we took advantage of what we'd learned …
As developers of web pages, we spend a lot of time using our browsers to inspect their HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The developer tools that come with modern browsers are therefore one of our most-used tools, Google Chrome’s in particular. …
We're looking for up to eight more developers to work with us across GOV.UK, Identity Assurance, the Performance Platform and other GDS projects. There are loads of different types of work to do and we're looking for people with skills …
We have written about how regular releases are good and that we practice what we preach on GOV.UK but we have never communicated what we actually do. We have just over 50 applications that we release to GOV.UK, some more …
As GOV.UK gets bigger, we often need to revisit the ways that we originally solved some problems. One thing that's changed recently is how we prepare for disaster recovery. Disaster Recovery The reality of working in technology is that software …
Today a minor change to our main site search went live. I hope it is an improvement in the experience of searching the site using a screen reader. The problem Here is the search page on GOV.UK. It has a …