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Tracking

Tracking tracks the Pages and Components that a visitor requested and the Component Links that a visitor followed. Tracking provides you with Web site statistics about which parts of your Web site are popular and which are less popular.

Tracking information is collected for a specific time period: monthly, weekly, daily or hourly. You can choose to modify, add or remove content from the Web site based on these measurements or to make content more prominent, for example, by moving a Component to the Web site's front page. You configure tracking in the Profiling & Personalization configuration file cd_wai_conf.xml.

You can track Pages, Components, and Component Links:

Pages
statistics for Pages requested
Components
Components on the Page
Component links
information about the specific link that a visitor looked for.

Unlike Tracking Keys, Tracking does not gather information about content, but instead, can be used to gather information about which Pages, Components, and/or Component Links a visitor actually viewed.