# Tag group rates and amount of tags

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**Category:** Ignition\
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**Created:** [June 10, 2022, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-group-rates-and-amount-of-tags/60597 "2022-06-10T07:09:37Z")\
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- Tag group rates are targets, not exact, and do not have precise start times. They run at the best effort pace of their contents. You cannot control the "offset". Look at individual device status pages to see how closely the device is achieving the paces requested.

- Tags pointing at the same processor and same top-level tag will be optimized to be read together only if using the same pace. This is how you minimize network (and PLC) load. It doesn't matter if there are many tag groups--it matters if the pace differs.

- Optimization is brand- and driver-specific. For modern Allen-Bradley, this discussion (and the links within) may be helpful:

> [@Ignition & Logix Best Practice Tips for better communications](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-logix-best-practice-tips-for-better-communications/60386):
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> Hi All, After a whole bunch of issues I have gone down the rabbit hole of what is wrong with our setup on site. I will preface this by saying I a relatively new to all of this… so be gentle stuck_out_tongue Based on much reading(such wow) I believe I have a list of things our site could take away for a better system. Some of them are easy to implement, whilst some of them need… significant work to realize. Especially the AOI approach in point 5 expressionless Before going too far and up…

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