Feature suggestion: show usage # of blocks

Sometime it would be helpful to see how often a block or a layout is actually used across the site (especially before you want to delete an old block).

Could it be possible to show the usage number in the list of the blocks? Maybe updated each rebuild?

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Just replying to myself to renew this suggestion. If you have a site with a lot of editors it’s important to keep track of which ContentBlock is used where when you change or update blocks.

With the help of AI built myself a snippet that lists all Blocks, how often they are used and provides links to the manager page of each resource that uses it. It has become very helpful when upgrading sites. Such info should be integrated in the CB-CMP, too.

As the data is not indexable in its current form, trying to add that in v1 would grind sites with 1000s of resources to a halt or require significant effort to build some sort of separate index.

In v2 which already has the structured data model, this is easy and optimized already and definitely something we’ll add to the UI.