Building a New Scotland Publications: FOI release

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.


Information requested

This is a follow up request to a previous FOI response. Your ref: 202300365543.

Please can the same questions answered in the above referenced FOI response be answered again, and brought fully up to date. In other words, the answers should now include all eleven "Building a New Scotland" papers so far published, and data up to the date this FOI is answered.

Response

Please see the below update to https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-a-new-scotland-webpagevisitors-foi-release/.

"Unique users" refers to the total number of unique individuals who visited the reported pages of the website during the time period analysed. Website analytics data is not 100% accurate for a number ofreasons: including where users have opted out or blocked tracking. Additionally, some data is only retained for a maximum of 13 months.

As of 25 March 2024:

Number of unique visitors that have visited the Building a New Scotland website since 14 June 2022 (broken down by week):

13-19 June 2022

9,786

20-26 June 2022

1,187

27 June - 3 July 2022

1,373

4-10 July 2022

518

11-17 July 2022

3,650

18-24 July 2022

941

25-31 July 2022

536

1-7 August 2022

535

8-14 August 2022

469

15-21 August 2022

1,040

22-28 August 2022

500

29 August - 4 September 2022

486

5-11 September 2022

892

12-18 September 2022

177

19-25 September 2022

309

26 September - 2 October 2022

264

3-9 October 2022

436

10-16 October 2022

1,288

17-23 October 2022

7,933

24-30 October 2022

1,110

31 October - 6 November 2022

692

7-13 November 2022

550

14-20 November 2022

465

21-27 November 2022

776

28 November - 4 December 2022

332

5-11 December 2022

300

12-18 December 2022

274

19-25 December 2022

142

26 December 2022 – 1 January 2023

88

2-8 January 2023

157

9-15 January 2023

169

16-22 January 2023

151

23-29 January 2023

142

30 January - 5 February 2023

161

6-12 February 2023

119

13-19 February 2023

160

20-26 February 2023

112

27 February - 5 March 2023

119

6-12 March 2023

121

13-19 March 2023

86

20-26 March 2023

96

27 March - 2 April 2023

113

3-9 April 2023

72

10-16 April 2023

61

17-23 April 2023

84

24-30 April 2023

88

1-7 May 2023

50

8-14 May 2023

113

15-21 May 2023

143

22-28 May 2023

83

29 May – 4 June 2023

66

5-11 June 2023

81

12-18 June 2023

596

19-25 June 2023

2,691

26 June 2023 – 2 July 2023

342

3-9 July 2023

244

10-16 July 2023

219

17-23 July 2023

212

24-30 Jul 2023

3171

31 Jul - 6 Aug 2023

937

7-13 Aug 2023

451

14 Aug - 20 Aug 2023

402

21 Aug - 27 Aug 2023

211

28 Aug - 3 Sept 2023

190

4 Sept - 10 Sept 2023

268

11 Sept - 17 Sept 2023

226

18 Sept - 24 Sept 2023

162

25 Sept - 1 Oct 2023

155

2 Oct - 8 Oct 2023

190

9 Oct - 15 Oct 2023

197

16 Oct - 22 Oct 2023

381

23 Oct - 29 Oct 2023

211

30 Oct - 5 Nov 2023

1762

6 Nov - 12 Nov 2023

3207

13 Nov - 19 Nov 2023

1769

20 Nov - 26 Nov 2023

1529

27 Nov - 3 Dec 2023

606

4 Dec - 10 Dec 2023

987

11 Dec - 17 Dec 2023

958

18 Dec - 24 Dec 2023

409

25 Dec - 31 Dec 2023

536

1 Jan - 7 Jan 2024

338

8 Jan - 14 Jan 2024

233

15 Jan - 21 Jan 2024

169

22 Jan - 28 Jan 2024

303

29 Jan - 4 Feb 2024

514

5 Feb - 11 Feb 2024

423

12 Feb - 18 Feb 2024

268

19 Feb 2024 - 25 Feb 2024

359

26 Feb 2024 - 3 Mar 2024

211

4 Mar 2024 - 10 Mar 2024

1283

11 Mar 2024 - 17 Mar 2024

464

18 Mar 2024 - 24 Mar 2024

248

Number of unique visitors that have visited each of the versions of Paper 1 since its launch on 14 June 2022:

Full version: 64,160

Summary: 14,411

Summary translations: 697 (downloads)

British Sign Language (BSL): 56

Easy Read: 2,272

Audio version: 133

Standard PDF downloads in first 7 days: 8,842

Number of unique visitors that have visited each of the versions of Paper 2 since its launch on 14 July 2022:

Full version: 20,621

Summary: 5,324

Summary translations: 555 (downloads)

British Sign Language (BSL): 40

Easy Read: 1,079

Audio version: 115

Standard PDF downloads in first 7 days: 3,183

Number of unique visitors that have visited each of the versions of Paper 3 since its launch on 17 October 2022:

Full version: 50,608

Summary: 31,317

Summary translations: 1,286 (downloads)

British Sign Language (BSL): 76

Easy Read: 478

Audio version: 614

Standard PDF downloads in first 7 days: 6,765

Number of unique visitors that have visited each of the versions of Paper 4 since its launch on 19 June 2023:

Full version: 6,642

Summary: 5,151

Summary translations: 549 (downloads)

British Sign Language (BSL): 6

Easy Read: 305

Audio version: 12

Standard PDF downloads in first 7 days: 1,08

From Paper 5 onwards, the summary is not a separate document, but a section of the main paper. Therefore, rather than separate figures - we have just recorded unique visitors for the full version as a whole.

Number of unique visitors that have visited each of the versions of Paper 5 since its launch on 27 July 2023:

Full version: 36,474

Summary translations: 525 (downloads)

British Sign Language (BSL): 22

Easy Read: 1,943

Audio version: 43

Standard PDF downloads in first 7 days: 1,087

Number of unique visitors that have visited each of the versions of Paper 6 since its launch on 3 November 2023:

Full version: 17,930

Summary translations: 148 (downloads)

British Sign Language (BSL): 23

Easy Read: 2,676

Audio version:26

Standard PDF downloads in first 7 days: 568

Number of unique visitors that have visited each of the versions of Paper 7 since its launch on 17 November 2023:

Full version: 8,575

Summary translations: 143 (downloads)

British Sign Language (BSL): 38

Easy Read: 558

Audio version:19

Standard PDF downloads in first 7 days: 723

Number of unique visitors that have visited each of the versions of Paper 8 since its launch on 21 November 2023:

Full version: 1,295

Summary translations: 16 (downloads)

British Sign Language (BSL): 16

Easy Read: 244

Audio version:12

Standard PDF downloads in first 7 days: 222

Number of unique visitors that have visited each of the versions of Paper 9 since its launch on 6 December 2023:

Full version: 3,902

Summary translations: 13 (downloads)

British Sign Language (BSL): 24

Easy Read: 242

Audio version:11

Standard PDF downloads in first 7 days: 230

Number of unique visitors that have visited each of the versions of Paper 10 since its launch 2 February 2024:

Full version: 2,860

Summary translations: 37 (downloads)

British Sign Language (BSL): 2

Easy Read: 239

Audio version: 5

Standard PDF downloads in first 7 days: 482

Number of unique visitors that have visited each of the versions of Paper 11 since its launch on 4 March 2024:

Full version: 3,168

Summary translations: 40 (downloads)

British Sign Language (BSL): 13

Easy Read: 187

Audio version: 22

Standard PDF downloads in first 7 days: 511

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