Departmental Websites

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Ceisteanna (170)

Albert Dolan

Ceist:

170. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment 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. [32494/25]

Amharc ar fhreagra

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment

My Department’s website is housed on gov.ie which is centrally managed by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO), with Departmental sites administered by individual Departments.

Gov.ie employs analytics tools on the site which enable Departments to identify sources of traffic to their own Departmental sites. Traffic from ChatGPT over the past 12 months to the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment is identified in the table below.

OGCIO changed its analytics provider from Google to Matomo in late 2024 for operational reasons. The information below is via Google Analytics from June to November 2024, and via Matomo thereafter.

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
0	0	52	149	423	209	461	660	722	612	535	640	115