{"id":48870,"date":"2014-10-17T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T09:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=846f5ec0d3704013dffc21b8ff727197"},"modified":"2014-10-17T09:01:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T09:01:05","slug":"news-story-gov-uk-reaches-1-billion-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=48870","title":{"rendered":"News story: GOV.UK reaches 1 billion visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Launched 2 years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/\">GOV.UK<\/a> brings together government services and information online. As the first ever single domain for government, it replaced DirectGov, Business Link and over 250 separate department and agency websites.<\/p>\n<p>GOV.UK makes it easier for everyone to find information about government services and policies in one place and in a clear, consistent and transparent format.<\/p>\n<p>On the second anniversary of its launch, the website has reached the impressive milestone of 1 billion visits. GOV.UK ranks alongside websites such as BT, BBC W eather, and Sky News for its number of weekly visits.<\/p>\n<p>The top 3 most visited pages are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/jobsearch\">find a job<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/tax-disc\">renew your vehicle tax<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/calculate-state-pension\">calculate your state pension<\/a>. Other interesting statistics announced today include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>90% of visits have come from within the UK<\/li>\n<li>36% of visits come via a portable device (24% mobile and 12% tablet) and this increases to around 50% on weekends<\/li>\n<li>the highest proportion of those visits from a mobile device is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/calculate-your-child-maintenance\">calculate your childcare maintenance<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>the top 5 internal search terms to date are (in order): Jobs, trade tariff, universal jobmatch, job search, and passport<\/li>\n<li>so far, the top 3 transactions completed on the site are:\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/tax-disc\">tax disc renewals<\/a> (67,000 a day)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/make-a-sorn\">SORN (statutory off road notification)<\/a> (8,000 a day)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/book-driving-test\">practical driving test bookings<\/a> (4,000 a day)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Minister for the Cabinet Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/francis-maude\">Francis Maude<\/a> said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/the-governments-long-term-economic-plan\">long-term economic plan<\/a>, this government is building digital-by-default services that are designed around the needs of users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I\u2019m delighted we have now reached a billion visits \u2013 not only is GOV.UK simpler, clearer and faster for users, it\u2019s also saving taxpayers \u00a360 million a year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mike Bracken, Executive Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/government-digital-service\">Government Digital Service (GDS)<\/a> said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The GOV.UK team has worked hard, and it\u2019s great to see their efforts rewarded like this. There\u2019s still a lot to do, but one thing is clear: our agile, iterative, user-centric approach works. GOV.UK has won awards and praise from all over the world, but none of it would have happened without users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">After 2 years, we\u2019re still learning from them, and still iterating and improving the site in response to feedback. Long may that continue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last year the website beat strong competition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/govuk-wins-design-of-the-year-2013\">win the Design of the Year Award<\/a>. It\u2019s been built and tested in public and uses open-source technology, which means that government won\u2019t have to pay expensive software licensing costs.<\/p>\n<p>GOV.UK is a key element in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/service-manual\/digital-by-default\">digital by default agenda<\/a> to make online public services more effective and efficient, potentially saving \u00a31.7 billion every year for taxpayers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/transformation\">Find out more about 25 of government\u2019s highest volume services<\/a> that are being improved to make them so good that people and businesses choose to use them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On its second birthday, the award-winning government website has reached a major milestone of 1 billion site visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}