December 2024 Release

These are features released since the last newsletter sent on November, 15, 2024

• Set up Axe and pa11y accessibility scanning to our CI pipeline
• Added new real time metrics (active users, first time users, total views, files downloaded)
• Added more definitions and report descriptions
• Added info icons and tooltip to report titles and definitions
• Added cards as collapsible accordions for reports on the dashboard

November 2024 Release

These are features released since the last newsletter sent on October, 17, 2024

1. Converted all user demographic reports to be by user metric instead of sessions.
2. Added code to track text responses within DAP for "Is this page helpful" survey.
3. Updated CNSCS display name to AmeriCorps
4. Increased limit on page level reports from 10k to 100k
5. Fixed bug for top download reports for handling spacing within the filenames to ensure HREF routes to correct URL
6. Add a new about page
7. Update footer

Handle GA4 data

Updates the site to handle new GA4 reporting data.

Other changes/updates in this release include:

• Incorporates USWDS into the site and deprecates the bourbon and neat libraries.
• Replaces layout grid, colors, fonts, and components with USWDS standards
• Adds official US government website banner
• Removes deprecated reports for Internet Explorer versions
• Addresses many accessibility issues as shown by scans with Axe Devtools, ANDI, and Pa11y.
• Enforces static code analysis and unit tests in CI for all branches.
• Adds reminder to check logs for issues via CI
• Updates the node run time to v20.x which will be the long term support version of NodeJS until Q1 2026.
• Improve the repo README document to inform onboarding of new developers.