Written answers
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Departmental Websites
Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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326. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform 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. [32505/25]
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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My department and the Dept of Taoiseach currently employ the data analytics platform Matomo for website monitoring. Please find here attached the data requested for both departments for the twelve months from 11 June 2024 to 11 June 2025.Please note – In late 2024 the government analytics provider changed for operational reasons. Therefore the data for the period from 11 June 2024 to 30 November 2024 is from Google Analytics 4 (GA4). The data supplied from 1 December 2024 to 11 June 2025, is from the current provider, Matomo.
11-30 June 2024 | Jul-24 | Aug-24 | Sep-24 | Oct-24 | Nov-24 | Dec-24 | Jan-25 | Feb-25 | Mar-25 | Apr-25 | May-25 | 1-11 June 2025 |
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0 | 0 | 28 | 81 | 137 | 70 | 89 | 207 | 358 | 286 | 170 | 196 | 102 |
11-30 June 2024 | Jul-24 | Aug-24 | Sep-24 | Oct-24 | Nov-24 | Dec-24 | Jan-25 | Feb-25 | Mar-25 | Apr-25 | May-25 | 1-11 June 2025 | 1-11 June 2025 |
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0 | 0 | 18 | 59 | 179 | 60 | 180 | 226 | 446 | 258 | 134 | 294 | 56 |
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