Mashable and Inquisitr are reporting and we are experiencing it first hand that the popular site analytics service sitemeter is having serious problems. Apparently the bug is affecting just the IE users of the sites and or blogs that are using sitemeter. The firefox users are unaffected as of this moment. The bug or error stops the sites and pages to load in IE 6 and above due to the fact that the sitemeter embed script fails to load.
When the page is loaded an error message stating that “Internet Explorer can not open the site http://startupmeme.com” and aborts the operation. When you click on the OK button it displays the standard IE page stating that the site could not be opened due to non availability of internet connection. Sitemeter has not fixed the issue till now, neither have they issued any warning or public statement about the causes of it on their blog. Sitemeter is used by a lot of blogs, including all the blogs of Gawker Media, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb right down to the small folks.
Sitemeter itself is not opening up in IE, and can only be accessed via firefox. The issue is serious and have hit a lot of sites across the Internet.
Ouch! That’s why I developed my own web analyitcs app: http://www.i-stats.com and Google Analytics is NOT real-time (I have no idea how they can get away with that), so if you use Google Analytics and your site is mentioned on a high traffic blog, you won’t know until a day or so later…
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well sitemeter is testing its new sitemeter script and they have also pointed out about its service unavailability for certain class of sitemeter users on their blog but this IE bug is some thing even i am not aware of.
i dont think sitemeter is reporting any missing statistics but need to check if their is some thing like this bug.
Thanks for sharing with us
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It’s not an “IE bug”, it’s a problem with Sitemeter’s script. If a problem appears on IE, it’s always IE’s fault, but if it appears in FF, it’s the website’s fault. C’mon. As far as I know IE didn’t make any changes, Sitemeter did.
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Actually I don’t think it’s Sitemeter (registrant Site Meter Inc.) itself, but the specificclick.net subdomain adopt.specificclick.net (registrant Proxy, Inc.) that’s causing the main problem. I can go to http://www.sitemeter.com right now, but not to check any of my stats. And the problem I’m having is that EVERY ONE of my sites uses Sitemeter – and removing the code is not going to be at all easy. When sitemeter works, adopt.specificclick.net is up. …but if you go to http://centralops.net/co/DomainDossier.aspx and type in specificclick.net, and check off the Service Scan box you’ll see that when specificclick.net is down that’s when sitemeter stops working. I haven’t searched to see whether Site Meter Inc. and Proxy, Inc. are owned by the same people, but that would be the next step to see if that’s why Site Meter Inc is not responding to troubleshoot the issue – it could be entirely outside of their hands. They SHOULD be telling us if it’s Proxy, Inc’s (specificclick.net’s) screw up though, and give us a timetable as to when it’s expected to be fixed.
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