Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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183. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence 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. [32496/25]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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My Department's core IT infrastructure and website is provided by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO). I have been advised by OGCIO that in late 2024 the government analytics provider changed for operational reasons. Therefore the data for the period 11 June 2024 to 30 November 2024 is from Google Analytics 4 (GA4). The data supplied for the period from 1 December 2024 to 11 June 2025, is from their current analytics provider, Matomo.

The following table represents the monthly number of any visits to my Department's website which have been recorded with a specific parameter or similar identifiers indicating traffic from ChatGPT for the past 12 months;