Freedom of information response

Website CMS and auditing

Publication date: 
Thursday 27 June 2024
Request: 

What Content Management System (CMS) is used for your corporate website content

(gov.uk)

Who is your provider/agency?

What is the yearly combined cost of this contract? (support, hosting, product licensing, user licences for example)

How many other sites are managed via this CMS/contract other than your main website?

What ‘paid for’ product/s do you use to ensure smooth running and compliance for the corporate website (gov.uk) Please state the provider/product against each that apply. If one product does all or some of these please state same provider/product against each.

·         Content quality assurance (broken links, spellings, readability etc)

·         Accessibility Compliance (WCAG, digital legislation)

·         In house policy rules (inventory, search and replace and auditing)

·         Analytics (visits, heatmaps, ux tools)

·         SEO and page performance monitoring

·         Uptime monitoring

·         GDPR Compliance

·         Privacy Compliance

·         Cookie controller

·         Front end accessibility widget (user interface)

What is the combined yearly cost for your website monitoring tools indicated above?

Response: 

What Content Management System (CMS) is used for your corporate website content (gov.uk)?

Drupal.

Who is your provider/agency?

Hosting, maintenance and support by contract with Ixis IT Limited (now CTI Digital).

What is the yearly combined cost of this contract? (support, hosting, product licensing, user licences for example)

£15,300.

How many other sites are managed via this CMS/contract other than your main website?

None.

What 'paid for' product/s do you use to ensure smooth running and compliance for the corporate website (gov.uk) Please state the provider/product against each that apply. If one product does all or some of these, please state same provider/product against each:

  • content quality assurance (broken links, spellings, readability etc) – Siteimprove
  • accessibility Compliance (WCAG, digital legislation) – Siteimprove
  • in house policy rules (inventory, search and replace and auditing) – Siteimprove
  • analytics (visits, heatmaps, ux tools) – Google Analytics
  • SEO and page performance monitoring – none
  • uptime monitoring – hosting support / Uptime Robot
  • GDPR compliance – in-house
  • privacy compliance – in-house
  • cookie controller – Drupal
  • front-end accessibility widget (user interface) – none

What is the combined yearly cost for your website monitoring tools indicated above?

SiteImprove cost for 2024/25 is £3,496.72. No other additional costs for items listed above.

Request reference:
FOI 13930