Written answers
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Departmental Websites
Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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148. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade 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. [32500/25]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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My Department's website analytics tools show that the following numbers of sessions (i.e. visits) had chatgpt.com as their origin, for each of the past 12 months, for ireland.ie and for my Department's content on gov.ie.
Month | ireland.ie sessions | gov.ie sessions (DFAT content) |
---|---|---|
June 2024 | 5 | No data available |
July 2024 | 5 | 2 |
August 2024 | 46 | 16 |
September 2024 | 120 | 42 |
October 2024 | 137 | 73 |
November 2024 | 553 | 36 |
December 2024 | 761 | 63 |
January 2025 | 1,470 | 63 |
February 2025 | 2,058 | 93 |
March 2025 | 2,387 | 133 |
April 2025 | 2,168 | 67 |
May 2025 | 2,360 | 175 |
June 2025 (1st to 11th) | 934 | 71 |
Total | 12,832 | 834 |
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