Sitemeter bug brings down Tons of Sites for Internet Explorer users

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.

 

Sitemeter Internet Explorer Bug

 

                                      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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4 Responses to “Sitemeter bug brings down Tons of Sites for Internet Explorer users”

  1. stratosg says:

    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 :D

  2. Pratyush says:

    There can be Nth reasons to hate Internet Explorer and with this adding another one :D .

  3. MOin says:

    God why dont microsoft just simply replace IE with FF in their default install and kill this cancer forever >=(s

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