Written answers
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Department of Justice and Equality
Departmental Websites
Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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631. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example, utm_source); if so, whether any visits have been recorded with a specific parameter or similar identifiers indicating traffic from ChatGPT; and to provide the monthly number of such visits, if recorded, for each of the past 12 months, in tabular form. [32504/25]
Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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My Department's website is part of the gov.ie platform, which is the portal for government services and information. The Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO), a division of the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, hosts and manages the gov.ie platform. All information provided on Gov.ie is intended for public consumption.
My Department does not directly employ website analytics tool, but is able to access those set up by the OGCIO, to track the performance of the Department's website on gov.ie. In late 2024, the government analytics provider changed for operational reasons.
The table below provides details of visits to my Department's website where identifiers indicating traffic from ChatGPT were recorded.
Month | Visits |
---|---|
June 2024* | 0 |
July 2024 | 2 |
August 2024 | 22 |
September 2024 | 69 |
October 2024 | 146 |
November 2024 | 71 |
December 2024 | 171 |
January 2025 | 219 |
February 2025 | 368 |
March 2025 | 525 |
April 2025 | 288 |
May 2025 | 393 |
June 2025** | 62 |
**1-11 June 2025 only.
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