/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/authors/marina-fox/ Recent content on Digital.gov Hugo en-us /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2023/09/12/from-pageviews-to-progress/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:05:00 -0500 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2023/09/12/from-pageviews-to-progress/ A 10-year recap of GSA’s Digital Analytics Program (DAP) highlights its impact on federal government agencies and the public, high-level observations using government-wide website analytics and trends, and new goals set for the next decade to help generate useful answers to meaningful questions to make government websites better. /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/services/service_pulse/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/services/service_pulse/ Measures how U.S. government domains are following best practices for federal websites. /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/services/service_dotgov/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/services/service_dotgov/ We make it easy to register and manage a .gov domain for US-based government organizations. /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2018/10/29/gsa-steps-up-security-for-dotgov/ Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:00:00 -0500 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2018/10/29/gsa-steps-up-security-for-dotgov/ GSA’s DotGov Program is modernizing the security of .gov to make government websites and systems more secure. /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2017/04/12/dotgov-domain-registration-program-to-provide-https-preloading-in-may/ Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:19:47 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2017/04/12/dotgov-domain-registration-program-to-provide-https-preloading-in-may/ Effective May 15, 2017, GSA’s DotGov Domain Registration Program will begin providing HSTS Preloading services for federal agencies. This new service helps ensure that visitor communication with .gov websites is not modified or compromised, and hostile networks cannot inject malware, tracking beacons, or otherwise monitor or change visitor interactions online. /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2017/01/19/automatic-https-enforcement-for-new-executive-branch-gov-domains/ Thu, 19 Jan 2017 12:00:30 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2017/01/19/automatic-https-enforcement-for-new-executive-branch-gov-domains/ HTTPS is a necessary baseline for security on the modern web. Non-secure HTTP connections lack integrity protection, and can be used to attack citizens, foreign nationals, and government staff. HTTPS provides increased confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity that mitigate these attacks. /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/10/20/5-factors-for-building-a-successful-government-wide-digital-analytics-program/ Tue, 20 Oct 2015 03:15:07 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/10/20/5-factors-for-building-a-successful-government-wide-digital-analytics-program/ Launched just three years ago, the Digital Analytics Program (DAP) continues to drive the 2012 Digital Government Strategy’s mission to improve the citizen experience by streamlining the collection and analysis of digital analytics data on a federal government-wide scale. The DAP officially launched on October 15, 2012 with a release of its first version of /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/04/16/using-a-hypothesis-driven-approach-in-analyzing-and-making-sense-of-your-website-traffic-data/ Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:14:11 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/04/16/using-a-hypothesis-driven-approach-in-analyzing-and-making-sense-of-your-website-traffic-data/ At the Digital Analytics Program (DAP), some of the most frequently asked questions we get are “how can I get access to the DAP data?” and “what do I do with all this data?” We all know that data is knowledge, and knowledge is power, but once we have access to it and realize that /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/06/19/the-golden-metric/ Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:15:33 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/06/19/the-golden-metric/ Are you looking for the “golden metric” that is the best measure of your agency’s website performance and cross-comparable across .gov websites? If so, stop looking. The concept of the golden metric is a dangerous one because it oversimplifies performance analysis of your website and overlooks the truth /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/04/01/digital-analytics-program-dap-oceans-of-data/ Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:30:56 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/04/01/digital-analytics-program-dap-oceans-of-data/ In the last 15 months, the federal Digital Analytics Program (DAP) monthly Web traffic has grown to more than 1.1 billion views gov-wide, providing Web analytics to 29 U.S. federal cabinet-level agencies and nearly 3,000 public-facing government Web properties. /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/11/06/nps-gov-use-of-digital-analytics-program-beyond-the-numbers/ Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:04:29 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/11/06/nps-gov-use-of-digital-analytics-program-beyond-the-numbers/ The National Park Service website, NPS.gov, is home to sites for the parks, programs, and subject-related content about the places and ideas that we preserve and protect for the American people. /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/09/03/getting-started-with-dap/ Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:50:06 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/09/03/getting-started-with-dap/ The Digital Analytics Program (DAP) is delighted to announce the launch of a DAP user group and new training program. These initiatives will support DAP users in getting the most from their implementation. The kick-off for this user group will be on Thursday, September 12, 2013, when we will /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/07/15/digital-metrics-for-federal-agencies/ Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:41:47 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/07/15/digital-metrics-for-federal-agencies/ Digital metrics are critical for measuring, analyzing, and reporting on the effectiveness of your Web, mobile, social media, and other digital channels. Every agency should have a metrics strategy to measure performance, customer satisfaction, and engagement, and use the data to make continuous improvements to serve its customers. Part 1: Common Metrics: Guidance, Best Practices, and /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2012/11/14/comscore-report-october-2012/ Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:13:09 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2012/11/14/comscore-report-october-2012/ In October 2012, comScore, a Web analytics research company, released an independently produced report that analyzes 75 federal agency websites on a range of quantitative and qualitative factors.