AEM tag cloud - dynamic nature

[varshsr]

1) As per tag cloud component document it says tag cloud can be dynamic based on page impressions , but how much dynamic this can be as most of the pages will be served from dispatcher cache and how would publish get to know about updates on page visits?

2) additionally i guess this page impression is based on the page statistics collected via https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kb/PageViewTracking.html

3) and per this could impact the performance as publish will be loaded to manage statistics to enable tag cloud perform dynamically

http://help-forums.adobe.com/content/adobeforums/en/experience-manager-forum/adobe-experience-manage...

4) So overall tag cloud might not be a realistic option and has to be managed with analytic providers like GA,Sitecatalyst

Any thoughts please share ?

[Opkar_Gill · Accepted solution]

Hi,

the functionality referenced in [1] is legacy code from previous versions of CQ. I doubt anyone still uses it to track page impressions. From what I remember it worked when you had a single publish instance writing back to the author. But as you suggested, it will not work with a dispatcher, where content is cached. 

Much better to use an analytics product for page impressions, as the code will be run in the client browser, so is not affected by caching.

Regards,

Opkar

[1]  https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kb/PageViewTracking.html

[varshsr]

Thanks Opkar for the details & confirmation :-)