Sitemeter bug brings down Tons of Sites for Internet Explorer users
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Tons of website currently running Sitemeter as their analytics service have gone down.Sitemeter is a popular free analytics service used by many sites.The bug currently affects only users of IE 5.5,IE 6 and IE 7.Whereas the websites are shown correctly in firefox , opera and safari.Even the Sitemeter site which uses its own stats have gone down.
In Internet Explorer the site is loaded first ,wasting a lot of user time and then a error message appears and you have only one option i.e to click Ok.If you click ok ,then the whole site goes away.
If your site has been affected then it is recommended to remove the sitemeter code temporarily.Also keep updated with the Sitemeter’s blog at weblog.sitemeter.com for futher updates.
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stratosg said:
seems like someone made a mess
:) i hate IE for it’s cruel decisions such as this one… thank god i don’t use that service but who knows what tomorrow brings 
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:57 pm -
Pratyush said:
There can be Nth reasons to hate Internet Explorer and with this adding another one :D.
August 5th, 2008 at 11:41 am -
stratosg said:
lol so true
August 6th, 2008 at 2:49 am -
MOin said:
God why dont microsoft just simply replace IE with FF in their default install and kill this cancer forever >=(s
August 6th, 2008 at 4:29 am