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August 1-2, 2008 — Site Meter Code Crashes Thousands of Blogs

August 2, 2008 by Liz 14 Comments

This Blog Was One of Them

The Living Web

Apologies to anyone who tried to visit this blog using IE6 or IE7 last night. Site meter code was bring down this site whenever it was loaded by those browsers.

Thousands of sites including b5media sites and Consumerist.com use site meter code as part of their tracking an analytics.

What to do if this is happening on your blog?

Remove the site meter code and paste it into a notepad document. It’s usually placed in the header or the fooler and is bookmarked with

Then visit www.sitemeter.com using Internet Explorer. Makes sense that when their error is gone, yours will also be.

Thanks to Darren Paul, Consumer/Lifestyle Publicist for the email this morning about this.
Hat tip to oneprojectcloser for the verification.

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Comments

  1. Musing says

    August 2, 2008 at 7:08 AM

    I about had a panic attack last night when I realized my blog couldn’t be opened using IE. I hope Site Meter gets the problem fixed soon. A lot of sites use it!

    Reply
  2. Greg @ Wise Bread says

    August 2, 2008 at 9:49 AM

    Using the html only version of your sitemeter code should be a decent workaround — keep tracking stats without the IE error.

    Login to your sitemeter account and go to Manager > HTML Code. Use the “Regular HTML” code.

    If you look closely, you just want the image link that’s between the “noscript” tags of the original sitemeter code.

    Reply
  3. juliemarg says

    August 2, 2008 at 12:04 PM

    Has the problem been fixed? I’m on IE now and I haven’t had any problems.

    Reply
  4. ME Liz Strauss says

    August 2, 2008 at 12:31 PM

    Hi Musing!
    Yeah, it was not a nice night for me either when I couldn’t figure out why two of my blogs were wonky and two were not.

    Reply
  5. ME Liz Strauss says

    August 2, 2008 at 12:32 PM

    Hi Greg!
    Thanks! I have other stats programs running. I’ll wait them out. 🙂

    Reply
  6. ME Liz Strauss says

    August 2, 2008 at 12:33 PM

    Hi juliemarg,
    I removed the faulty code. 🙂

    Reply
  7. Luboš Motl says

    August 2, 2008 at 12:47 PM

    Several ways to keep S(h)itemeter and fix the bug, too (for both clients and webmasters): http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/08/fix-internet-explorer-7-with-sitemeter.html

    Reply
  8. David Damore says

    August 2, 2008 at 7:53 PM

    For those interested Tech Crunch has a discussion on this topic.
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/02/sitemeter-kills-thousands-of-sites-for-ie-users/

    David

    Reply
  9. Jeanne May says

    August 3, 2008 at 12:11 AM

    I also slightly panicked when my blog couldn’t function properly! I contacted who my blog is with and they were very quick in their reply and solution.

    It was really interesting reading some of the solutions to rectify the problem.

    Jeanne

    Reply
  10. ME Liz Strauss says

    August 3, 2008 at 6:45 AM

    Luboš Motl,
    Thanks for the link. Loved your thinking and your post. You are more than a lowly programmer with full of computerabilia. 🙂

    Reply
  11. ME Liz Strauss says

    August 3, 2008 at 6:48 AM

    Hi David!
    It was fun to see their take. It’s nice to read about once we’ve got the problem solved, even nicer when we’re still living through it. 🙂

    Reply
  12. ME Liz Strauss says

    August 3, 2008 at 6:49 AM

    Hi Jeanne,
    It’s also a surprise to see how little folks seemed to notice or remark about it. 🙂

    Reply

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