Comments on: Sitemeter Crashing Sites When Viewed with IE7

By: Teddy Towncrier

Teddy Towncrier — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:33:30 +0000

I hope this isn’t too far off topic.

I’m experiencing crashes when attempting to view Ustream and Mogulus vids in both IE7 and Firefox 2 and 3.

Viewing in Vista on the same machine is fine.

Regards.

Teddy

By: Darren Cronian

Darren Cronian — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:19:38 +0000

I know people flame Internet Explorer, but in my stats IE returns a 84% useage amongst my readers, so I would not rule out IE.

(some people are still using IE5 would you believe!)

By: Vlad (Small Business Blog)

Vlad (Small Business Blog) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:40:30 +0000

Strange, I am using Sitemeter for quite some time now, but never noticed anything unusual. Of course, I prefer Firefox, but I do check the site in IE 7 and Opera every now and then to see if everything checks out.

By: Jay Thompson

Jay Thompson — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:15:42 +0000

I find it interesting that people are thanking Sitemeter for fixing the problem. A problem they never should have let happen in the first place. And then they say NOTHING about it until it’s finally resolved?

Shame on Sitemeter.

I won’t be re-installing their code. Looking at GetClicky.com right now. Seems to offer all Sitemeter did, and more.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:05:22 +0000

I reinstalled the Sitemeter code on my site this morning in the U.S. (8:00 am CST) and tested it on Internet Explorer 7.0. It still crashes my site. I am considering moving Sitemeter permanently. Perhaps I will then break my BAD habit of viewing my statistics every 30 minutes.

By: Max Forlani

Max Forlani — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:48:02 +0000

Hi,

since I live in Istanbul and posts here are generally released when I’m asleep, I of course am not only one of the last ones to write a comment, but in this case didn’t noticed the glitch at Sitemeter.

But everything is working fine at the moment, just like you said in your update. I just hope that people are smart enough to try using a URL in Firefox if it doesn’t work with IE.

Cheers,
Max

By: Rajaie AlKorani

Rajaie AlKorani — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:04:55 +0000

That’s OK, I use Firefox!

By: Peter McCartney

Peter McCartney — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:38:01 +0000

Hi! Sitemeter is now back on line. Their blog describes what happened:

http://weblog.sitemeter.com/

I have replaced my sitemeter widget and it’s working! Thank you, Sitemeter!

By: Billy Dennis

Billy Dennis — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:09:14 +0000

That’s “statcounter.com” buttons. Sorry for the typo.

By: Billy Dennis

Billy Dennis — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:02:26 +0000

Charles: It’s not my job to tell my readers what browser to use. IE7 has been in use and pre-installed on computers for years. Its existence is a fact of life. Sitemeter’s Javascript button worked the day before yesterday. They screwed around with their code on Friday afternoon and then left for the day/weekend unconcerned or/or unaware that they had made their users’ blogs inoperable and unreadable on the numerically most popular browser there is. As of this moment, they have not communicated in any way with their users regarding this problem. I am at this moment changing all my Sitemeter buttons to Statecounter.com buttons. Sitemeter doesn’t even exist for me anymore. Let the company go under and all their employees lose their job. Sitemeter failed.

By: charles

charles — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:50:15 +0000

Thanks and i hope it wouldn’t crash again. People should transfer to mozilla firefox browsers because you will have a better browser experience in firefox unlike IE7.

Thank you
Charles
Money Making and Blogging Tips
http://www.resourcesandmoney.blogspot.com

By: Michael Fowke

Michael Fowke — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:26:18 +0000

Rejoice! The problem with Sitemeter has just been fixed! But don’t quote me on that – in case it crashes again.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:16:03 +0000

I don’t think its just an IE/JS problem. It resolved itself when I switched to SiteMeter’s HTML code, even though I have plenty of other JS on my site.

By: Luboš Motl

Luboš Motl — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:11:53 +0000

Eight ways to fix the problem plus the origin of the bug explained here: http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/08/fix-internet-explorer-7-with-sitemeter.html

By: mercutiom

mercutiom — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:46:44 +0000

Just to let you all know, I work in the hosting industry, and I don’t believe that this is just a Sitemeter issue. We’ve been dealing with a lot of FrontPage users (I know, I know) experiencing similar issues. Even sites that were not built in FP but have the extensions installed are having this issue. Looks like it might be a IE issue in it’s handling of Javascript and .htaccess files.

Easiest fix we’ve found: Use FireFox (or anything but IE.)

By: Ultimate Blogging Experiment

Ultimate Blogging Experiment — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:14:57 +0000

I haven’t really cared too much about sitemeter. I am pretty surprised to see that a lot others do not use it like me.

By: United Voices

United Voices — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:44:34 +0000

Didn’t know about this problem. But hey, actually I didn’t like IE7 that much. Well I think it has to fix its bugs first.

By: Kat

Kat — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:36:36 +0000

Sitemeter may be having problems, but that wasn’t the reason my blogs and some others were getting an “operation aborted” message last night.

It was ANY javascript that was inside the

It seems to have fixed itself over night though.
I had a bout with insomnia last night, so I kept trying to find and fix the issue, but it was almost every blog I went to, and even sites like Yahoo were affected.

But I do thank you for posting that sitemeter is having issues today, I didn’t know that and because my sitemeter code is outside the

By: Hammad

Hammad — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:13:23 +0000

thanks darren… i was wondering why my traffic is less today… and i think this was the reason as my major traffic visitors use IE and when i removed it came back to normal after an hour or so

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:12:56 +0000

It appears to be partially fixed now. It won’t crash your site in IE, however, sitemeters site is still having some trouble.