Saturday, August 2, 2008
Sitemeter issues causing sites to crash.
The consensus on the Blogger help page---and everywhere else---is that Sitemeter is causing pages to crash in Internet Explorer and hit viewers with the "operation aborted" pop-up. Sorry about that, I'm working on it. Same thing seems to be happening with The Marmot's Hole, The Grand Narrative, Deadspin, and everyone else using Sitemeter. The pages still show up through Google reader, so that seems to be your best bet for now. More troubling is that a lot of legitimate blogs have been marked as spam by Blogger and are thus locked until their human operators request a review, but thankfully it looks like that hasn't happened to mine. According to the Blogger help group and other sites reporting on the issue, removing Sitemeter will let your blog open properly, but you'll apparently lose data for the time it's off.
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Brian,
thanks for drawing my attention to this via your link, but can you really not open by blog in IE at the moment? I'm having no problems with IE7 or Firefox 3.0.
Sigh. I remember when Sitemeter let slip a year or two back that it puts all sorts of spamware and adware on readers' computers. I assumed that that had been cleared up, but given that and now this latest problem then I'm not sure it's really worth using anymore.
Hi,
Yeah, couldn't get to yours, Marmot's Hole, or Deadspin, and I couldn't get to mine until I took Sitemeter off. Looks like there are enough complaints on the internet to make it more than just a local problem.
Sucks because I liked having a tracker, and I was actually getting enough traffic to make it worth tracking. Hopefully this gets cleared up soon. It just goes to show you how unwise it can be to put stock in how many hits a blog gets because of how unreliable some tracking sites apparently can be. If it's not a problem with Technorati---which only seems to work half the time---it's something else.
I'm deleting it. It really doesn't seem worth the hassle. I recommend using Statcounter instead, which no-one's ever reported problems with and gives you data on your last 500 visitors (100 on Sitemeter never was really that useful anyway).
Thanks, I just signed up for it. Eventually I'll have to log back on to Sitemeter to get my stats from the last few months.
I think blogger has managed to fix it. Some wordpress blogs are still "aborting".
Maybe, but I can't access my sitemeter page. Still keep getting the "operation aborted" pop-up. I had to just take it off my site for the time being.
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