Scottish Government document download statistics: FOI release
- Published
- 20 January 2025
- Topic
- Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202400442665
- Date received
- 27 November 2024
- Date responded
- 18 December 2024
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
Of all documents published by the Scottish Government on the Scottish Government website in the past year, please provide a breakdown of number of documents by the number of times they were downloaded. For example:
Download Count |
Number of Documents |
0 |
55 |
1 |
19 |
2 |
14 |
…. |
… |
[number of times the single most popular document to download was downloaded] |
1 |
Please also provide a list of the top ten most downloaded documents published by the Scottish Government in the last year, with number of downloads. Please also provide a list of the top ten most downloaded documents from the last year that were published at any time by the Scottish Government, with number of downloads in the past year.
By ‘past year’ I mean from 27 November 2023 to 27 November 2024.
Response
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested. The reasons why we don't have the information are explained below:
For the first part of your question (Part1)
'Of all documents published by the Scottish Government on the Scottish Government website in the past year, please provide a breakdown of number of documents by the number of times they were downloaded.'
Due to the way the www.gov.scot website and the associated Google Analytics tracking are set up, we do not have a report which can show the number of document downloads broken down by the number of documents viewed and published between 27 November 2023 to 27 November 2024.
This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
For the other 2 parts of your question, the answers are below:
Part 2
Please also provide a list of the top ten most downloaded documents published by the Scottish Government in the last year, with number of downloads.
Answer:
Please see data in tab ‘Question 2’ in the attached Excel spreadsheet entitled ‘FOI 202400442665 Publication Download Histogram data’.
Part 3:
Please also provide a list of the top ten most downloaded documents from the last year that were published at any time by the Scottish Government, with number of downloads in the past year.
Answer:
Please see data in tab ‘Question 3’ in in the attached Excel spreadsheet entitled ‘FOI 202400442665 Publication Download Histogram data’
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- File type
- Excel document
- File size
- 20.2 kB
Contact
Please quote the FOI reference
Central Correspondence Unit
Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
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