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SANS has some details on the reason for that Site Meter problem that blocked out Internet Explorer from many sites: We received several reports (thanks Thanos and Jim) of sites which use the Sitemeter visitor counter that were no longer loading as of last night for users with Internet ...
LGF, Internet, Security, IE7, Internet Explorer, Site Meter, Sitemeter
What’s up with Site Meter? We first reported the problem last night, but today their code still causes Internet Explorer 7 to throw an “Operation aborted” error. There are a lot of sites affected by this; did they just release a buggy update and go on a long weekend vacation? ...
LGF, Internet, Security, IE7, Internet Explorer, Site Meter, Sitemeter
Patrick Ruffini is investigating whether Daily Kos really gets the traffic they claim (500,000+ visits per day), and has turned up some pretty compelling evidence that their statistics are greatly inflated by an anomaly in Sitemeter’s traffic counting algorithm: Proof of the Sitemeter Anomaly. Here’s Patrick’s first post about this: ...
LGF, Daily Kos, Moonbats, Useful Idiots, Progressives, Traffic, Sitemeter
I’m disabling the Sitemeter statistics counter at LGF, which has been in place for several years, for these reasons: 1) There are often connectivity issues with Sitemeter’s servers, that affect LGF’s page loading speed. We have enough connectivity issues of our own, and don’t need any more, thank you. 2) ...