Written answers
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Departmental Websites
Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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366. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment 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. [32498/25]
Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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The ICT Unit in my Department has informed me that they do not use UTM parameters to specifically track sources. However, the website analytics tool used by the Department does have some inbuilt Campaign Source tracking. Reports generated by the analytics tool do not indicate any visits from ChatGPT prior to November 2024. From November 2024 onwards the monthly visits reported were:
Month | Visits |
---|---|
November 2024 | 70 |
December 2024 | 342 |
January 2025 | 793 |
February 2025 | 1164 |
March 2025 | 1036 |
April 2025 | 1274 |
May 2025 | 1048 |
Total | 5727 |
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