Sitemeter Bugs
Last Updated on Monday, 4 August 2008 12:16 Written by richardcqz Monday, 4 August 2008 12:16
Few days ago I logon to MYNETFM, The site is load properly, when it is almost finish loaded, the Internet Explorer 7 prompt me a message that “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://www.mynetfm.net/. and operation aborted” and thanks to the new Sitemeter bugs. Sitemeter is a free web analytics service used by many popular blogs and web sites including Lifehacker, Gizmodo, and Consumerist. All of the site mention just now also affected by the Sitemeter bugs. But, the web sites load just fine in Firefox, Safari, and Opera.
It’s likely that the bug is due to tracking code changes Sitemeter has been rolling out. Visitors to web sites using the code who are using IE will see the page start to load, and then get an error message. When you click OK to make the error message go away, the entire site goes with it. Nice.
If your site has been affected it looks like you have two options. You can either remove the code altogether until Sitemeter gets its act together, or you can try modifying your code by using the plain HTML version instead of the Javascript version. If you take the latter route, your counter won’t show up thanks to another bug, but at least it will continue tracking visits to your site.
Tags: bug, crash, outage, sitemeter, web-analytics