Page title

[gavinwye]

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]

Page titles get passed to google analytics, therefore, it's important that they don't contain any personal information.

[gordonmcmullan]

Discussion Summary from the hackday

[timsb]

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

[stevenaproctor]

On the GOV.UK Design System backlog.

[sophie-still]

Is the same format used for page titles on internal HMRC services? (I've heard in the past that we shouldn't add "- GOV.UK" on internal services but haven't seen any official guidance)

[Jon-Rowe-HMRC]

Hi @sophie-still my suggestion is that we should change our page title guidance to exclude 'GOV.UK' from internal page titles. I'll look into making the amend.