How does Digital.gov manage content?

The team at Digital.gov works to ensure the site’s content meets user needs and advances our mission.

To maintain and curate the most useful experience possible, we regularly evaluate our web content for accuracy, relevance, and other indicators of quality. If the content does not meet our criteria, we may refresh or repurpose it. Alternatively, we may remove outdated or redundant content from the website.

When Digital.gov content is removed, we make reasonable efforts to ensure that it is available in public, archival repositories. For example, you can browse the GitHub repository for this site to access all content, including the history for each individual page.

About Digital.gov’s evaluation schedule

At regular intervals outlined in the evaluation schedule table, we evaluate web content based on several factors, including:

  • Usefulness: Accurate and thoughtfully organized
  • Accessibility: Conformance with IT accessibility laws and policies, including Section 508 standards
  • Relevance: Alignment with user needs
  • Quality: Well-written and appropriately structured

We may make exceptions outside of the established schedule if web analytics, accessibility and quality checks, or other indicators of current user needs reveal that changes need to be made.

Digital.gov’s evaluation schedule
Content Type Schedule
Dynamic homepage The Digital.gov homepage is reviewed and kept up to date under the Technology Transformation Services (TTS) content policy for accuracy and relevance on a quarterly basis.
Landing pages Key architectural landing pages (such as community, guide, or resource landing pages) are reviewed and kept up to date under the TTS content policy for accuracy and relevance on a quarterly basis.
Topic pages Topic pages are evaluated regularly for accuracy and relevance. We may remove topics if they no longer meet user needs.
Event pages Event pages are reviewed and updated, or removed 5 years after the event date. Any relevant and useful content from these events, such as event recordings, is repurposed.
Resources and guides Content is reviewed and updated, or removed 5 years after the publication date.
News (blogs) Content is reviewed and updated, or removed 5 years after the publication date.
Author pages Biographical pages of authors who have contributed to the site are removed along with their last remaining blog post, event, or other contribution in conjunction with the other content types.