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Piloting new ways of measuring digital success

This post was contributed by Joanne Inskip, Senior Customer Insight Manager at the Government Digital Service:

 

At the start of 2011, the GDS Customer Insight team were given the task of developing a research methodology that could:

  • Measure the performance of digital government services (specifically: task completion rates, time taken, drop out points, user comprehension and satisfaction)
  • Be used on the live services as well as those in development
  • Blend behavioural data with perception data
  • Be rolled out across government to provided consistent measures for digital transactions

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