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Live transparent usage stats — tool leaderboard & trends

Live transparent usage stats — tool leaderboard & trends

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Page Views
Unique Users
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Audience this period

How people engage — aggregated and anonymous

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Engagement rate
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Traffic Trend

Daily Activity

Traffic intensity over the selected range

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Top Countries

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Traffic Sources

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Devices

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Transparency Note

Traffic from Google Analytics (selected window). All counts are approximate and anonymous — no personal data stored.

This data is real and unfiltered. Learn how it's collected →

Most useful right now

What people like you are finding most useful this period

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Tool Leaderboard

All 59 free tools — ranked by page views in the selected range

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Rising Stars

Biggest week-over-week growth

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Hidden Gems

Great tools you might have missed

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Activity Breakdown

Traffic by Category

Which tool categories get the most traffic

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Content vs Tools

Where visitors spend their time

72 Blog Posts
350K Words Written
19 Avg Min / Post
480 FAQ Answers

Blog Post Performance

Page views from GA4 (30 days)

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Posts by Category

Security 6 posts
AI Agents 6 posts
Copilot Skills 8 posts
Business Value 1 post
What's New 8 posts
Copilot 17 posts
Cowork 8 posts
Agents 6 posts
Work IQ 1 post
Scout 6 posts
Prompt Engineering 5 posts

Reading Estimates

Approximate read time per post

Auditing Microsoft 365 Copilot: What's …
14 min
The GitHub Copilot Harness in Copilot …
21 min
Admin Guide to Microsoft 365 Copilot …
7 min
Copilot Skills in Word: What Exists …
6 min
How to Use Copilot Skills in Excel
7 min
How to Use Copilot Skills in PowerPoint
7 min
Microsoft 365 Copilot Skills, Explained
11 min
Microsoft Skill Recorder: Record Work …
7 min

Content Depth

Word count and FAQ coverage per post

Auditing Microsoft 365 Copilot: … 3600 words 10 FAQ
The GitHub Copilot Harness in … 5400 words 10 FAQ
Admin Guide to Microsoft 365 … 1800 words
Copilot Skills in Word: What Exists … 1500 words
How to Use Copilot Skills in Excel 1800 words
How to Use Copilot Skills in … 1800 words

Deep-dive guides on Microsoft 365, Copilot, AI, and cloud — written for IT pros, not developers.

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What's on the Site

59 Free Tools
72 Blog Posts
500 Prompts
285 Cert Guides

Top Pages

Most visited pages across the entire site

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Where people arrive

Top entry pages — the first thing visitors land on

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Evergreen guides

Pages people keep coming back to — steady traffic across the range, not one-off spikes

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Content Freshness

How recently each content area was updated

AI News 4× daily
M365 Roadmap Daily
Service Health Every 2 hours
Cert Study Guides Weekly
Deprecation Timeline Daily
Blog Posts As written
Licensing Data Bi-weekly check
Copilot Matrix Bi-weekly check

Guided — Platform Analytics

Open Platform →

Interactive certification prep — real-time engagement and learning intelligence.

Learners (30d)
Quiz Starts
Completed
Completion Rate
Page Views
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Daily Engagement

Page views and users on /guided/ (30 days)

Quiz Mode Distribution

How learners prefer to study

Certification Performance

Practice page engagement per certification (30 days)

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Event Breakdown

All tracked user actions (30 days)

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Top Guided Pages

Most viewed pages in the platform

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The story

A few years ago, building something like this required a dev team and a budget. Today, with AI tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude, anyone with an idea can build real tools that help real people. This site is proof — built by an IT pro who'd never written code before. If you've got a problem worth solving, the tools to build the solution are already in your hands.

Framework Hugo (static site generator) Free
Hosting Cloudflare Pages Free
Tools engine 100% client-side JavaScript Free
Analytics Google Analytics 4 Free
Pipelines GitHub Actions (5 repos) Free
Search Pagefind (static index) Free
Infrastructure cost $0/month

* Excludes domain registration (~$12/yr) and optional AI subscriptions. All tools run in your browser — no server-side processing.

Want to build something? Start with our Prompt Guide →

Growth Milestones

Mar 2026Site launched with 13 tools
Apr 7AI News pipeline goes live
Apr 10M365 Roadmap Tracker
Apr 13Community tools launched
Apr 1759 tools milestone
Apr 20Site Analytics redesign
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Community Impact

Estimated from usage patterns

Fun Facts

How this data works

Honest about what these numbers mean — and what they don't

What's counted
A page view is one page opening; a unique user is one anonymised browser over the selected range. No logins, no profiles.
Where it comes from
Google Analytics 4 for traffic, Google Search Console for search. Both are sampled and modelled, so totals are approximate.
How fresh
Traffic updates within minutes (cached 5 min). Search Console runs about 48 hours behind. "Live now" is real-time.
Why it may differ
Ad-blockers, privacy browsers and GA4's modelling mean these counts won't match a server log exactly. They show the shape, not a precise tally.
Privacy
Everything here is aggregated and anonymous — no personal data is stored or shown, and tiny segments are hidden.
No money
This is a usefulness dashboard, not a business one. Revenue is deliberately left off — it's not what this page is about.

Open Data

All this data is free and open. Build something with it.

curl https://www.aguidetocloud.com/api/stats?range=30d
Main stats /api/stats?range=30d
Realtime /api/stats?realtime=1
Custom range /api/stats?range=custom&start=2026-04-01&end=2026-04-17

Best-effort public API. Response cached for 5 minutes. Data refreshes continuously from GA4 + Google Search Console.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is data collected?

We use anonymous client-side event tracking. When you visit a tool page or copy a prompt, a lightweight event is sent to our API. No personal data, cookies, or IP addresses are stored.

Is any personal data stored?

No. We only store aggregate counts — how many times each tool was viewed and how many actions were taken. No IP addresses, no user agents, no cookies, no personal information of any kind.

Why show analytics publicly?

Transparency builds trust. We believe in showing exactly how our tools are used rather than hiding behind vague claims. These numbers help us prioritise which tools to improve.

Are the numbers exact?

Numbers are approximate. We use rate limiting and bot filtering, but some automated traffic may inflate counts slightly. All displayed numbers are rounded.

Can I access the raw data?

The stats API is public at /api/stats — you can fetch it programmatically. It returns tool leaderboards, daily trends, and top search queries in JSON format.

Is this tool still being improved?

Yes! This is a V1 release and we're actively improving it based on user feedback. If you have suggestions, find a bug, or want a new feature, please visit our Community Feedback page at aguidetocloud.com/feedback/ — every piece of feedback is read and acted on.