How it started href="#how-it-started"
ScanGov started as a father-son civic hacking project (now Project ScanGov) in January 2024.
The project initially scanned federal and state government website homepages and graded these based on certain technical criteria:
Early press:
- New Open Source Initiative Highlights Flaws in State Government Websites (Government Technology)
- ‘ScanGov’ debuts with digital experience ratings for 50 states (StateScoop)
- State websites average ‘A’ grade for URL configuration, ‘F’ for sitemaps (StateScoop)
- On some basic metadata practices, US government gets an ‘F,’ per new online tracker (FedScoop)
- 2024.01.31 edition (Data is Plural)
How it’s going href="#how-its-going"
ScanGov has expanded and parsed out its work into these focus areas:
- ScanGov (commercial offering)
- Project ScanGov (open source project)
- ScanGov Data (government digital experience open data)
- ScanGov Docs (government digital experience documentation)
Standards href="#standards"
ScanGov Standards is what we use to grade government digital experience. This criteria is based on government policy, web protocol, guidelines and best practices.
Governments href="#governments"
Who we scan:
- Cities (U.S. top 100 population)
- States (U.S.)
- Federal agencies (U.S.)
Digital experience indicators href="#digital-experience-indicators"
What we scan for:
- AI-friendly
- Accessibility
- Content
- Domain
- Performance
- SEO
- Security
- Social
Government Experience Awards href="#government-experience-awards"
ScanGov provides quantitative data in support of the judging process for e.Republic’s Government Experience Awards.
