Canada.ca Analytics: Monthly Website Usage Over 36 Months

Canada.ca analytics provides monthly usage data for the Government of Canada's primary website. The dataset covers the past 36 months and is published by Employment and Social Development Canada. It is available as an unaltered CSV file under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term web traffic trends based on monthly usage data
• Model seasonal patterns in government service access based on the 36-month time series
• Benchmark website performance metrics against other public sector portals based on usage statistics

Strengths

• Covers a substantial time period of 36 months
• Published by a federal government department, suggesting official provenance

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

Employment and Social Development Canada

Time Range

Past 36 months

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-11 14:21:41.124930; freshness should be verified

Geography

Canada