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
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
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
Who we scan:
- Cities (U.S. top 100 population)
- States (U.S.)
- Federal agencies (U.S.)
Digital experience indicators
What we scan for:
Government Experience Awards
ScanGov provides quantitative data in support of the judging process for e.Republic's Government Experience Awards.