Open stevenaproctor opened 6 years ago
For clarification this is for text that appears in the <title>
element.
On DfE’s Publish teacher training courses we’ve largely been using:
[state if any][page title] – [service name] - GOV.UK
Where state is Error
or Success
. This is based on the guidance from https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/error-summary/#how-it-works
@gavinwye commented on 1 Feb 2017
Original conversation relating to this in HMRC slack: https://hmrcdigital.slack.com/archives/community-ux/p1485950134000025
As reccomended bny Chris Moore to Phil Sherry
[page title] - [section name] - [service name] - GOV.UK
[page title] should mirror h1
on that page.
@gavinwye commented on 2 Oct 2017 Page titles get passed to google analytics, therefore, it's important that they don't contain any personal information.
@gordonmcmullan commented on 13 Mar
Discussion Summary from the hackday
@timsb commented on 12 Sep
Currently the page title documentation states that
if there is personally identifiable information in the
<h1>
, replace it so is not recorded in Google Analytics.
It's possible to send a custom page title to GA using either ga('set', 'title', 'My page title');
or virtual page views and leave out personally identifiable information. The documentation should be updated to include this information. This would enable services to keep the titles they want to have rather than being limited by the information we can send to GA
Just to add, we recently found it documented (but tucked away) on this page: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/service-unavailable-pages/
‘Sorry, the service is unavailable – service name – GOV.UK’ as the page title
Which seems to suggest:
[page title] – [service name] – GOV.UK
Note the –
is an en-dash, not a -
hyphen.
Would love some clarity too.
just to note there is some guidance here:
https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/design/writing-for-user-interfaces#style
but looks like HMRC have more we could consider adding
What
How page titles should be formatted in services to complement page titles on GOV.UK.
Why
There is nothing documented in any guidance about the best way to design page titles except a short reference in the URL section of Writing for user interfaces. There is inconsistency across services and guidance.
All pages must have a unique page title and this is a need shared across government.
Anything else
HMRC already has documentation about this in our design system that gives advice about: