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Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Departmental Websites

Photo of Albert DolanAlbert 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]

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon 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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