Automated analysis of council website journeys

Test your website the way residents actually use it to reveal where journeys break down and how to make them more successful.

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Features

Residents expect quick, clear answers online.

But over time, council websites can start lose sight of user needs.

We simulate real resident journeys to show how easily people can find answers, where journeys break down and how to fix them.

  • Reduce customer struggle. We identify where journeys become unclear, highlighting confusion, misleading routes and moments where residents hesitate or second-guess their next step.
  • Prioritise based on need. Broad, repeatable analysis across services helps you direct effort where it can have the biggest impact on customer success.
  • Learn from best practice We provide recommendations aligned with Government Digital Service (GDS) guidelines and share examples of successful user journeys from other councils to support your team’s improvement strategy.

By making journey insights tangible and actionable, teams can quickly move from evidence to improvement.

Designed for local government

Who we're for

  • Heads of Digital & Service Leads. Understand how residents experience multiple user journeys and prioritise improvements.
  • Chief Technology Officers and IT Managers. Gain evidence to support digital transformation and service optimisation.
  • Customer Experience and Service Improvement Teams. Identify friction points and reduce avoidable contact.
  • Transformation and Programme Teams. Monitor the impact of changes across services over time.

How they're using journey analysis

  • Understand why residents abandon online processes
  • Identify why some services generate unnecessary calls or emails
  • Prioritise website and content changes
  • Measure the effect of updates
  • Support planning and investment decisions

We connect what analytics, accessibility tools, feedback metrics and user research reveal, and highlights what they miss. You get a complete view, for clearer prioritisation and more effective improvement work.

Get started. Ten key journey reports for your council are available now.

Why us?

In many large organisations, including councils, website responsibilities are spread across multiple teams with competing priorities. The result? The customer experience can get lost.

Digital Journey Coach was started by us, David Bishop and Lydia Bishop, after many years working in the public and private sector to tackle usability and content challenges.

Our approach started from a simple observation: even well-intentioned teams often create confusing or fragmented journeys.

We help you reconnect with your customers

To uncover and resolve poor customer experience, we developed a coaching method built on:

  • translating business objectives into customer-focused goals
  • mapping real user journeys to uncover friction
  • providing practical recommendations backed by real evidence
  • tracking the impact of changes over time to build a culture of continuous improvement

Council Insight allows us to share this approach at scale, combining practical experience, a structured methodology and ongoing insight to ensure your website content is clear, effective, and truly meets resident needs.

Lydia Bishop
David Bishop

Our reporting doesn't replace specialist designers and researchers; it takes skill and experience to write good editorial in the challenging context of local authorities. Instead, we help stretched teams know where to focus their expertise to greatest effect.

David Bishop
Founder

Roadmap programme

For teams ready to take a deeper, data-driven approach

Our roadmap programme integrate existing analytics and performance data to create a prioritised backlog of improvements.

By combining insights from Google Analytics, Google Search Console and your internal service value metrics, we identify where focused effort will deliver the greatest gains in completion rates, user satisfaction, and operational efficiency.

Our analysis can begin with 125 priority journeys and scales to a comprehensive audit of 500+ journeys across your digital estate, providing clear, evidence-based insights to inform roadmap decisions, transformation planning and resource allocation.

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Service options and pricing

Begin with free analysis of key resident journeys or take a deeper dive with on demand reporting and wider service audits.

Free

£0

GBP

  • Automated assessment of 10 predefined high-impact services
  • Instant visibility into how key services perform
  • Simulated customer experience
  • Clear findings and GDS-aligned recommendations
  • Best practice examples
  • Quarterly re-runs
  • No precurement or set up required

Self-serve analysis

£999

GBP

  • Expand reporting when and where you need it
  • 100 journey credits to user at your own pace
  • Choose your own journeys and user needs
  • Unlimited journey re-runs for 12 months
  • Team account
  • Best for targeted service improvements or supporting active projects

Roadmap programme

from £2,499

GBP

  • Dedicated expert support to guide service selection and interpret the results
  • Comprehensive coverage across your digital estate
  • Integration with analytics and demand metrics
  • Recommendations tailored to your content guidelines
  • Prioritised roadmap to guide digital investment
  • Best for transformation programmes and council-wide digital planning

Feature comparison

Free

Ten key user journey report plus links to best practice examples

Features

Number of journeys
10 per council
Unlimited Re-runs
Yes
Best practice guidance
Yes

Self-serve analysis

Best for: targeted service improvements or supporting active projects.

Features

Number of journeys
100
Unlimited Re-runs
Yes
Best practice guidance
No

Roadmap programme

Comprehensive coverage across 100–500+ services, integrating behavioural data and service value metrics.

Features

Number of journeys
125+
Unlimited Re-runs
Yes
Best practice guidance
No

Get started in three simple steps

Book a short discovery call

We’ll talk through your website and the challenges your teams are facing. This helps us understand your priorities, strategic services, and where improving journeys could have the greatest impact.

Get a tailored approach

We recommend the right level of analysis for your needs, whether thats the flexibilty of reporting on demand or a structured deep dive across your digital estate.

Identify and prioritise improvements

Gain a clear picture of where journeys break down plus recommendations to help your team prioritise and focus effort where it matters most.

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