Website statistics

Cole Big made this Freedom of Information request to Department of Health

This request has been closed to new correspondence from the public body. Contact us if you think it ought be re-opened.

The request was successful.

Dear Department of Health,

Please provide the following statistics about your website, broken down by financial years 2019-20 and 2020-21.

1) The total number of all visits to your website.
2) The number of site visits to your:
a) FOI webpage
b) FOI disclosure log webpage
c) Information Publication Scheme (IPS) entry webpage
d) IPS agency plan webpage
e) privacy webpage

If you are unable to produce a document to respond to this request under the FOI Act, please consider providing a response using administrative access arrangements instead.

Cole

FOI, Department of Health

Good afternoon

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST – NOTIFICATION OF RECEIPT AND REQUEST FOR AN EXTENSION OF TIME

I am writing to notify you that the Department of Health (department) received your request on 8 September 2021 for access to documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) (FOI Act) being:

The following statistics about your website, broken down by financial years 2019-20 and 2020-21.
1) The total number of all visits to your website.
2) The number of site visits to your:
a) FOI webpage
b) FOI disclosure log webpage
c) Information Publication Scheme (IPS) entry webpage
d) IPS agency plan webpage
e) privacy webpage

The statutory timeframe for processing your request is 30 calendar days within which a decision on access to the requested documents is to be notified. The department may impose a charge for the work involved in providing access to the documents. If this request attracts a charge you will be notified in writing.

Unless you advise otherwise, draft and duplicate documents along with Commonwealth employee names and contact details below Senior Executive Service level and mobile telephone numbers of all staff will be excluded from the scope of your request under s22(1)(a)(ii) of the FOI Act.

Request for extension of time

As a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the department is dealing with a very high volume of FOI requests. To ensure the department can process your request in accordance with the requirements of the FOI Act, including locating and providing access to all relevant documents, the department would be grateful if you would agree to an extension of 30 calendar days for processing your request. If you agree, the department will endeavour to provide a decision to you by 7 November 2021.

Please contact the department by 17 September 2021 with your decision to the 30 day extension of processing time.

You can contact the FOI Unit on via email at [email address], should you have any questions.

Kind regards
FOI Officer

FOI and Legislation Support Section

Legal & Assurance Division |  Corporate Operations Group
Legal Advice & Legislation Branch
Australian Government Department of Health
E: [Health request email] 
GPO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

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Hello

I am okay for the processing time to be extended. However, if you can, please consider providing the statistics as an admin release outside the FOI Act, especially if this reduces burden on your FOI resources.

Thanks

Cole

FOI, Department of Health

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Dear Mr Big

 

I refer to your Freedom of Information request to the Department of Health
(the department) seeking the following under the Freedom of Information
1982 (Cth) (FOI Act):

 

The following statistics about your website, broken down by financial
years 2019-20 and 2020-21.

1) The total number of all visits to your website.

2) The number of site visits to your:

a) FOI webpage

b) FOI disclosure log webpage

c) Information Publication Scheme (IPS) entry webpage

d) IPS agency plan webpage

e) privacy webpage

 

Administrative release of information

 

Please see below tables for a breakdown of statistics you have requested
for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 Financial Years.

 

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 2019-20 Financial Year (1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020) |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Page | Page views |
|---------------------------------------+--------------------------------|
|Total visits |110.1M visits, 191.3M page views|
|---------------------------------------+--------------------------------|
|Privacy | 23,785 |
|---------------------------------------+--------------------------------|
|Freedom of Information (FOI) | 10,335 |
|---------------------------------------+--------------------------------|
|Freedom of Information (FOI) Disclosure| 3,462 |
|Log | |
|---------------------------------------+--------------------------------|
|Information Publication Scheme (IPS) | 488 |
|---------------------------------------+--------------------------------|
|Information Publication Scheme (IPS) | 72 |
|Agency Plan | |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

 

 

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 2020-21 Financial Year (1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021) |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Page | Page views |
|----------------------------------------+-------------------------------|
|Total visits |85.4M visits, 142.7M page views|
|----------------------------------------+-------------------------------|
|Privacy | 12,762 |
|----------------------------------------+-------------------------------|
|Freedom of Information (FOI) | 15,492 |
|----------------------------------------+-------------------------------|
|Freedom of Information (FOI) Disclosure | 4,179 |
|Log | |
|----------------------------------------+-------------------------------|
|Information Publication Scheme (IPS) | 490 |
|----------------------------------------+-------------------------------|
|Information Publication Scheme (IPS) | 68 |
|Agency Plan | |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

 

Based on the information provided above, the department has now closed
this request.

 

If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the
department at [1][email address].

 

Kind regards

 

FOI Officer

 

FOI Unit – FOI and Legislation Section

Legal & Assurance Division |  Corporate Operations Group

Legal Advice & Legislation Branch

Australian Government Department of Health

E: [2][email address

GPO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

 

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Australia and their continued connection to land, sea and community. We
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