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Blog traffic data for paulinekolde.info, covering Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, Copilot Studio, and marketing automation. Tracked via Simple Analytics, because I value privacy-first, no cookies, no personal data collected.

⚠ Analytics Provider Change — Read Before Interpreting
All statistics on this page come exclusively from Simple Analytics, which was adopted in January 2026 as part of a deliberate move to privacy-respecting, cookie-free tracking. Prior to this, the blog ran on Google Analytics (Apr 2025 – Dec 2025). That historical data is not shown here, but for completeness: Google Analytics recorded approximately 4,000 unique users during those nine months. The two tools measure traffic differently, so direct comparisons between periods should be made with caution.
Simple Analytics period
Jan 5 – Mar 31, 2026
~86 days · data on this page
Google Analytics period (not shown)
~4,000
unique users · Apr 2025 – Dec 2025
Total Pageviews
6,855
Jan 5 – Mar 31, 2026
Unique Visitors
4,894
Human traffic only
Peak Single Day
741
Feb 18, 2026
Desktop Visitors
89%
Top Referrer
MS
Dynamics
301 visits from the product itself

Month by Month

Jan – Mar 2026
January 2026
1,311
pageviews
Unique: 869
Data starts Jan 5 (migration date)
February 2026
2,867
pageviews
Unique: 2,332
Peak: 741 views on Feb 18
March 2026
2,677
pageviews
Unique: 1,693
Sustained post-conference traffic

Daily Traffic

All 86 days
Daily pageviews · Jan 5 – Mar 31, 2026
Feb 18 spike: traffic event from a newsletter/Substack feature · Mar 10: ColorCloud + conference-season effect
Daily pageviews, Jan 5 – Mar 31, 2026
DatePageviews
2026-01-0520
2026-01-0645
2026-01-0766
2026-01-0862
2026-01-0945
2026-01-1092
2026-01-117
2026-01-1247
2026-01-1354
2026-01-1456
2026-01-1545
2026-01-1642
2026-01-1719
2026-01-1814
2026-01-1979
2026-01-20145
2026-01-2157
2026-01-2250
2026-01-2345
2026-01-248
2026-01-2514
2026-01-2646
2026-01-2771
2026-01-2888
2026-01-2939
2026-01-3044
2026-01-3111
2026-02-0115
2026-02-0241
2026-02-0339
2026-02-0460
2026-02-0579
2026-02-0652
2026-02-078
2026-02-0816
2026-02-0943
2026-02-1055
2026-02-1181
2026-02-1287
2026-02-1338
2026-02-1413
2026-02-155
2026-02-1655
2026-02-1756
2026-02-18741
2026-02-19110
2026-02-2058
2026-02-219
2026-02-2251
2026-02-2378
2026-02-24263
2026-02-25166
2026-02-26534
2026-02-27108
2026-02-286
2026-03-0127
2026-03-02122
2026-03-03178
2026-03-04169
2026-03-05100
2026-03-0687
2026-03-0712
2026-03-085
2026-03-09220
2026-03-10335
2026-03-11131
2026-03-12118
2026-03-1375
2026-03-147
2026-03-158
2026-03-1663
2026-03-1785
2026-03-1870
2026-03-1962
2026-03-2052
2026-03-21218
2026-03-2224
2026-03-23134
2026-03-2478
2026-03-2549
2026-03-2644
2026-03-2760
2026-03-288
2026-03-2927
2026-03-3076
2026-03-3133

Top Blog Posts

Combined Jan–Mar 2026
#PostViews
01How to Fail at Customer Insights691
02The 5 Levels of Marketing Automation491
03How to Publish Marketing Forms426
04JavaScript Library for CI Real-Time Marketing Forms303
05Using Customer Insights Data in Emails & Journeys261
06Customizing Email & Forms in Customer Insights135
07Extending CI Forms with Tiny Bits of JavaScript118
08Email Click & Negative Path in a Journey110
09Multi-Stage Approval for Event Registrations in Dynamics 365101
10Custom Button in Dynamics 36589

Where Readers Come From

External referrers · Feb + Mar 2026
🔍
Organic Search
733
Google: 582 · Bing: 151
Steady SEO performance across both engines
⚙️
Microsoft Ecosystem
380
Dynamics product itself: 301 visits from
public-gbr.mkt.dynamics.com
+ Teams (66) + community.dynamics.com (13)
💼
LinkedIn
99
Direct click-throughs from LinkedIn posts and profile links
📰
Newsletters
88
Substack: 76 · PP Weekly: 12
Power Platform Weekly newsletter feature
🌐
D365 Community Sites
31
nishantrana.me: 31
Prominent D365 blog linking to Pauline's content
🤖
AI Assistants
12
ChatGPT: 12 referrals
Content surfaced via AI-assisted searches

Notable Traffic Events

Spikes worth mentioning
741
Feb 18, 2026 — Single day record
A dramatic traffic spike, primarily landing on /how-to-fail-customer-insights and /how-to-publish-marketing-forms. Driven by a Substack newsletter feature and sharing within the Dynamics community. 656 of those 741 views were unique visitors — almost all first-time readers.
335
Mar 10, 2026 — Marketing Automation post goes viral
Peak day in March. The post /marketing-automation-level ("The 5 Levels of Marketing Automation") drove the bulk of traffic, alongside the Co-chella site (/aichella) which attracted a secondary wave of visitors — likely after CPPS presentation in Vancouver.
MS
D365
301 visits from Microsoft Dynamics 365 product itself
public-gbr.mkt.dynamics.com is the Microsoft-hosted Dynamics 365 Customer Insights application. 301 users arrived directly from within the product — indicating that Pauline's content is either bookmarked, linked in shared resources, or referenced inside customer Dynamics environments. This is organic, unsolicited product-level reach.

Audience Geography

Top 12 countries
Countries by Pageviews
🇺🇸 United States
2,673
🇩🇪 Germany
1,109
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
336
🇨🇦 Canada
285
🇳🇱 Netherlands
236
🇨🇭 Switzerland
173
🇦🇺 Australia
167
🇳🇴 Norway
139
🇸🇪 Sweden
129
🇫🇮 Finland
128
🇵🇱 Poland
125
🇩🇰 Denmark
99
Device & Platform Split
Desktop
89%
Mobile
10%
Tablet
1%
Operating System
Windows
88%
iOS
6%
macOS
5%
Android
2%