A parent choosing a primary and a secondary school at once hit the old
cap of five total. The basket now holds up to five primary and five
secondary schools (ten in all), matching the compare page's phase tabs.
Schools that could land in either tab (all-through, special schools with
phase "Not applicable", unknown phase) count against both groups, so no
tab ever exceeds the five-slot chart palette and point styles.
- lib/compareLogic: compareGroups, fullGroupFor, fitToGroupLimits
- search modal disables only the full group and says which one
- rankings rows carry the phase of the tab they are ranked under
- shared ?urns= links are trimmed per group
- copy: compare metadata, homepage value prop, How it works card now
name primary and secondary schools (also better for search intent)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrites every visitor-facing string that used an em dash, choosing the
punctuation for what the dash was doing: a colon before a list or
explanation, a comma for an aside, a full stop between two thoughts,
parentheses for an aside mid-sentence. Covers page titles and meta
descriptions, the home and admissions guide copy, school page headings
and notes, the compare page, metric labels and tooltips.
Two rewrites also fix the sentence around them: the closure banner no
longer repeats "proposed for closure", and the cut-off caveat's list of
priorities now parses.
A lone dash marking a missing value in a table cell stays: it is a data
convention, not prose. A Jest guard walks the source with the TypeScript
parser and fails on any other em dash in a string or JSX text node.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up audit of the rankings and admissions pages.
Admissions (AdmissionsView.tsx):
- National Offer Day no longer claims offers publish "from 12:01 am";
release times are set per-council (often late afternoon, some
overnight), so it now tells parents to check their council's page.
- Secondary preference count no longer states a flat "up to six"
(that's London/Pan-London); most LAs allow three to six. Mirrors the
hedge the primary step already used.
- Added the two deadlines that most often catch parents out: selective
schools' separate entrance-test registration (months earlier), and
faith schools' supplementary information form sent direct to the
school. Covered in both the primary and secondary criteria steps.
- Reworded the equal-preference tip so it's precise: order is the
tie-break among schools you qualify for (you get the highest-ranked
one), not irrelevant.
Rankings (RankingsView.tsx):
- Subtitle "Top-performing schools by X" -> "Schools ranked by X", so
it isn't nonsensical for context/equity/absence metrics.
- KS2 progress isn't published for 2023/24 or 2024/25 (no KS1
baseline). Selecting a primary progress metric on a recent year used
to dead-end on a generic "No rankings found". Added a scoped caveat
to the progress hint and an explanatory empty-state (primary only —
secondary Progress 8 is published).
Added an admissions smoke journey (static content, stable milestones).
Verified with tsc --noEmit and next build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
Table auto-layout sizes columns by unwrapped header text, so labels like
'Reading, Writing & Maths Combined Higher %' pushed the value column —
and the table — past the viewport. The label now renders inside a block
span capped at 110px (84px on phones), forcing multiline and keeping the
table fully in view at any metric.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rankings mobile: the metric value — the point of the page — sat behind
a sideways swipe at 390px. The Area column now folds into a subline
under the school name, leaving Rank | School | Value to fit the
viewport with no horizontal scroll.
Rankings default metric becomes 'expected standard' (rwm_expected_pct);
'higher standard' stays available but no longer frames every school's
headline number in the terms parents least understand.
MetricTooltip was hover-only and display:none on phones — the mobile-
primary audience had zero access to the Attainment 8 / Progress 8 /
EBacc definitions. It is now a real button: tap/click/keyboard
toggleable with outside-click and Escape dismissal, 24px target,
shown at all viewports.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add lib/analytics.ts with a single typed track() wrapper. SSR-safe,
never throws, no-ops when Umami isn't loaded. Event names form a
fixed union so refactors stay safe.
14 events wired:
Discovery (3)
search_submitted FilterBar submit + near_me path
near_me_used all geolocation outcomes
empty_results search returns 0 schools
Engagement (5)
school_viewed SchoolDetail + Secondary on mount, with
urn / phase / local_authority / from
section_nav_used section-nav links on both detail views
chart_metric_changed mobile chart chip switch
metric_compared_in_rankings rankings metric dropdown
external_link_clicked Ofsted / school website / DfE (declarative
data-umami-event attributes)
Conversion (5)
compare_school_added search/rankings/detail/compare sources
compare_school_removed detail toggle and compare page
compare_viewed once per session when there's a selection
(school_count, phase_mix)
compare_metric_changed compare page metric dropdown
compare_shared native sheet vs clipboard distinguished
Operational (1)
api_error caught in handleResponse, includes
endpoint / status / route
Suggested Goals to configure in the Umami dashboard for the funnel
report: search_submitted → school_viewed → compare_school_added →
compare_viewed → compare_shared.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The expected-standard ranking groups too many schools at or near
100% — the leaderboard isn't useful when the top 30+ schools all
share the same value. Switch the default primary metric to the
higher (above-expected) standard, which discriminates between
schools much more clearly at the top end. Secondary still defaults
to Attainment 8. Users can still pick either via the dropdown.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Apply formatAcademicYear to all year displays in ComparisonChart, ComparisonView,
PerformanceChart, and RankingsView. Remove old vanilla JS frontend and CSV data
directory — both superseded by the Next.js app and Meltano pipeline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- URLs now /school/138267-school-name instead of /school/138267
- Bare URN URLs redirect to canonical slug (backward compat)
- Remove overflow-x:hidden that broke sticky tab nav on secondary pages
- ComparisonToast starts collapsed — user must click to open
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
1. Simpler home page: only search box on landing, no filter dropdowns
2. Advanced filters: hidden behind toggle on results page, auto-open if active
3. Per-school phase rendering: each row renders based on its own data
4. Taller 4-line rows with context line (type, age range, denomination, gender)
5. Result-scoped filters: dropdown values reflect current search results
6. Fix blank filter values: exclude empty strings and "Not applicable"
7. Rankings: Primary/Secondary phase tabs with phase-specific metrics
8. Compare: Primary/Secondary tabs with school counts and phase metrics
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addresses 28 issues identified in UX audit (P0–P3 severity):
P0 — Critical:
- Fix compare URL sharing: seed ComparisonContext from SSR initialData
when localStorage is empty, making /compare?urns=... links shareable
- Remove permanently broken "Avg. Scaled Score" column from school
detail historical data table
P1 — High priority:
- Add radius selector (0.5–10 mi) to postcode search in FilterBar
- Make Add to Compare a toggle (remove) on SchoolCards
- Hide hero title/description once a search is active
- Show school count + quick-search prompts on empty landing page
- Compare empty state opens in-page school search modal directly
- Remove URN from school detail header (irrelevant to end users)
- Move map above performance chart in school detail page
- Add ← Back navigation to school detail page
- Add sort controls to search results (RWM%, distance, A–Z)
- Show metric descriptions below metric selector
- Expand ComparisonToast to list school names with per-school remove
- Add progress score explainer (0 = national average) throughout
P2 — Medium:
- Remove console.log statements from ComparisonView
- Colour-code comparison school cards to match chart line colours
- Replace plain loading text with LoadingSkeleton in ComparisonView
- Rankings empty state uses shared EmptyState component
- Rankings year filter shows actual year e.g. "2023 (Latest)"
- Rankings subtitle shows top-N count
- Add View link alongside Add button in rankings table
- Remove placeholder Privacy Policy / Terms links from footer
- Replace untappable 10px info icons with visible metric hint text
- Show active filter chips in search results header
P3 — Polish:
- Remove redundant "Home" nav link (logo already links home)
- Add / and Ctrl+K keyboard shortcut to focus search input
- Add Share button to compare page (copies URL to clipboard)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Changed 'equity' to 'disadvantaged' and 'trends' to '3yr' to match
the MetricDefinition category type.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Added optgroup elements to organize metrics into logical categories:
- Expected Standard
- Higher Standard
- Progress Scores
- Average Scores
- Gender Performance
- Equity (Disadvantaged)
- School Context
- 3-Year Trends
Also added CSS styling for optgroup labels to match the design system.
Note: School names in rankings are already clickable links to school details.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Migrate from vanilla JavaScript SPA to Next.js 16 with App Router
- Add server-side rendering for all pages (Home, Compare, Rankings)
- Create individual school pages with dynamic routing (/school/[urn])
- Implement Chart.js and Leaflet map integrations
- Add comprehensive SEO with sitemap, robots.txt, and JSON-LD
- Set up Docker multi-service architecture (PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Next.js)
- Update CI/CD pipeline to build both backend and frontend images
- Fix Dockerfile to include devDependencies for TypeScript compilation
- Add Jest testing configuration
- Implement performance optimizations (code splitting, caching)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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