Sitemeter Causing Sites to Abort When Loading in Internet Explorer (IE)
Sitemeter, a site statistics tool used by many site owners or webmaster to track performance (traffic) of their websites or blogs, is causing the loading error of their sites in Internet Explorer (IE). Now, this convinced me that I made the right choice for choosing Histats instead of Sitemeter in measuring the traffic of my sites.
The first sign of trouble came from blogger-friends who I was chatting with at Yahoo Messenger. I thought at first the problem was with IE but it turned out that the javascript code of Sitemeter was the culprit.
If you are having this kind of problem when your blog or site loads in Internet Explorer, remove the Sitemeter code from your site then everything will be back to normal. We have tested this in some blogs and it worked well. The “Loading Aborted” problem is caused by the javascript code of Sitemeter which is incompatible with Internet Explorer. We will be less technical here. The only advice I could give you is remove the Sitemeter codes from your websites immediately and replace them with codes provided by other traffic metering tools like Histats (if you wish to continue monitoring your web traffic). Enjoy blogging!
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Fren my blog is now working in IE before I saw this post about sitemeter! I’m using sitemeter for one year as well as histats. Hehe doble. Andun parin sitemeter code ko? Hmmm..confusing..ano kaya?
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jessie reply on August 4th, 2008:
Fren,
The sitemeter code has been fixed already but i will stick with Histats.
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Kuyaa!! you’re my hero!! wehehehe.. Captain J!
thanks po for the insight.. :] keep ‘em coming!
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jessie reply on August 4th, 2008:
Twinks,
No problemo…
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hello po..can we xlinks?
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jessie reply on August 4th, 2008:
Joy,
It’s all done, amiga.
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Ay ganun? kaya pala Joyoz told me na aborted daw yung sendami.com ko na blog pag open niya using IE…pero di ko pa naman na experience..
thanks sa tips fren..baka e remove ko nalang yung sitemeter ko…
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jessie reply on August 4th, 2008:
Fren,
I hihgly recommend you use Histats instead of Sitemeter. Histats is a lot better and more efficient than Sitemeter
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ivy reply on August 5th, 2008:
Actually fren I use both histats and sitemeter. paano kasi gaya gaya din sa iba lols
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uhm… thanks for the info..
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jessie reply on August 4th, 2008:
nelson,
sure, no problem bro. thanks for dropping by again.
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I’ve always disliked sitemeter, but now I have an even better reason too. Over 60% of internet users use IE, im not losing 60% or more of my websites traffic just cause i want to use their garbage.
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