[HN Gopher] GOV.UK site broke Google realtime analytics during l...
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       GOV.UK site broke Google realtime analytics during lockdown
       announcement
        
       Author : whyleyc
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2021-01-04 21:30 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | dazzawazza wrote:
       | There are a lot of things to complain about in the UK but the
       | digital services bit of the UK government is really well run.
       | 
       | Congratulations on riding out the thundering herd.
        
         | mnd999 wrote:
         | Best not mention the COVID app.
        
           | petepete wrote:
           | That didn't have anything to do with the GDS.
        
           | zinekeller wrote:
           | Plus the search tool: https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/26/
           | govuk_tier_postcode_l...
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           | (Worse of all, Auntie Beeb (aka the BBC) has operated a
           | similar tool without issue.)
        
         | mkl95 wrote:
         | Indeed. They also maintain a site dedicated to the gov.uk web
         | design system, with free resources such as HTML components.
         | https://design-system.service.gov.uk/
        
           | abhinav22 wrote:
           | Wow! The team in charge of digital at UK Govt are rockstars!
           | Simply amazing for a govt agency to be this good!
        
             | mkl95 wrote:
             | They surely make some EU countries look like amateurs. It's
             | not usual to run digital services in-house like this in
             | southern Europe, instead all this stuff is outsourced to
             | consultancy firms that deliver unresponsive, buggy sites
             | for absurdly high prices.
        
       | boffbowsh wrote:
       | Why call it UK .gov in the title? It's called GOV.UK.
        
       | whyleyc wrote:
       | Estimated that >1% of the UK population (769K) were concurrently
       | on the site before GA topped out.
        
       | 1f60c wrote:
       | Why did it break?
        
         | g_p wrote:
         | Interesting question. I wonder if Google has a scale speed
         | limit for an individual tenant's sites, or perhaps each URL? It
         | seems that the underlying gov.uk page remained up throughout
         | though.
        
       | alexmcc81 wrote:
       | Am I the only one who thinks it's creepy that the largest
       | advertising company in the world, and particularly one based
       | outside the country, has so much data on what UK citizens access
       | on their own government websites for health, tax, social welfare
       | information etc?
        
         | paxys wrote:
         | It should all be public information in the first place.
        
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