SiteMeter, the popular web statistics service, is having a huge issue at the moment. It appears that the statistics code will crash anyone visiting a site using SiteMeter with Internet Explorer 5.5, 6 or 7! That’s a whole lot of potential visitors getting “Internet Explorer cannot open the internet site” errors, and not OK of course. I’d expect people fleeing from SiteMeter now…
So what can you do if you’re a SiteMeter user? Well, remove the SiteMeter code, probably located in your site’s footer but that depends on where you put it of course. SiteMeter won’t be able to track your visitors when the code is removed, but on the other hand the people visiting your site will be able to actually see it…
So who uses SiteMeter? Oh, no one in particular, just the b5media blog network, the Gawker sites, Perez Hilton, and a whole bunch more. There’s a nice little list on SiteMeter’s site, but don’t expect to be able to visit it if you’re running Internet Explorer.
For the record, nothing on the SiteMeter blog, and nothing particularly visible on the main site either. Not good, why aren’t they informing people?
Read more at One Project Closer and on Liz Strauss’ blog. A big hat tip to Darren Paul for the heads up!
