When is an ATG User Profile created for a person visiting the web site?

Answer: When a person hits a website url, and when that request is processing, the profile gets created.

When a person visits the Web site, ATG platform automatically creates a profile for him or her and stores it in a profile repository set up by the application developers who are working on the Web site. The following are the basic information stored for an anonymous user,

a) Sequential Profile Id generated by ATG

b) Properties with <default=""/> tag set in userprofile.xml