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  Sue Charles

  11 months ago

  Thank you for posting this -- I thought I was the only one, that something was wrong with my computer.
  
  However, my browser is ATT Yahoo and I'm unable to open any Site Meter sites as of a few hours ago. I read a notice from SM a few days ago saying they were in the process of updating the service and that the SM logo on some sites would appear off and on, but not to be concerned.
  
  Looks like someone screwed up.
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  Sue Charles

  11 months ago

  Oops, I just checked and my ATT Yahoo has IE 7.0. But still, I'm not gonna change my browser -- I'm used to it and this is the first time I've had an issue. You all blame IE and god knows it's not perfect but this is Site Meter's problem!
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  Sebastian

  11 months ago

  IE isn't "not perfect", it's a piece of crap. Just about every user of a different browser will tell you the same. Join the good side, join the productive side, join the Mozilla or Opera side!
  
  This is a clear Site Meter problem, though. But nobody's blaming IE.
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  Sebastian

  11 months ago

  I have a similar issue with the latest Google Maps API code, which is online for about two weeks now. It broke access to each site that loaded the JavaScript-file, without any interference from my code. (I deactivated all JavaScript completely and just had Google Maps API activated.)
  
  After I switched back to the stable version of the API (I used the "normal" versions, not the "sneak peak" versions), everything worked again.
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  John Martin

  11 months ago

  This is common issue with Internet Explorer and JavaScript. It happens if you try and manipulate the DOM before the element has been fully parsed. E.g. if a SCRIPT tag is within a DIV and the JavaScript tries to manipulate the said DIV.
  
  It doesn't effect other browsers because Internet Explorer's rendering engine is much more "strict" in the way that it handles DOM manipulation.
  
  This really isn't Internet Explorers' fault because this is a well known DOM issue in Internet Explorer and any decent JavaScript developer should know about it.
  
  Bad show chaps.
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  Thomas

  11 months ago

  The ultimate fix, sitemeter.com is the problem. If you go into your internet explorer security settings and add the following to restricted sites then the page loads.
  http://*.sitemeter.com
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  Sue Charles

  11 months ago

  Thomas -- THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
  
  Just out of curiosity, does this also mean that Site Meter cannot "read" my data? If so, that's not such a bad thing.
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  Krieg

  10 months ago

  Thanka a million!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  Lawrence

  11 months ago

  this wouldn't happen if people would just simply use Firefox.
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  LizN

  10 months ago

  Actually, this problem started happening for me using FF and when I tried on IE and found I still couldn't access the site, I decided to look into it further.
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  greggo

  11 months ago

  This is only a problem with the sitemeter JAVASCRIPT code. Using the HTML only code seems to be a decent workaround.
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  achernow

  11 months ago

  Seems to me like this is just another excuse to encourage the masses to come over to FF3!
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  bob e

  11 months ago

  I noticed the same problem - I thought it was Gizmodo that had code issues! These people should test their code on the worlds most popular browser - IE~
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  John Doe

  11 months ago

  It happens because the people at SiteMeter are modifying the DOM in their javascript code before the DOM is ready. They can't do that, its against browser standards. It's not an IE problem -- Firefox just ignores the issue and moves on and doesn't present it to the user.
  
  Site owners can fix this by just moving the JS code to the bottom of their page, underneath the </body> tag, at least until SiteMeter people fix their code
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  Keith J. Farmer

  11 months ago

  so all those firef*x users.. are running a buggy browser!
  
  No surprise, really.
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  Felipe

  11 months ago

  Ouch! That's why I developed my own web analyitcs app: http://www.i-stats.com and Google Analytics is NOT real-time (I have no idea how they can get away with that), so if you use Google Analytics and your site is mentioned on a high traffic blog, you won't know until a day or so later...
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  clustrmaps

  11 months ago

  As a 3rd party analytics provider, we feel SiteMeter's pain... blackouts/blockages like this are no fun for anyone.
  
  Like SiteMeter, ClustrMaps provides a 'plain vanilla' option - pure HTML, simple JPG only, no javascript, no cookies, nothing fancy. Unlike SiteMeter's detailed stats, ClustrMaps is complementary in that it provides a 'gestalt map' showing at a glance all visitor locations... many user's have both ClustrMaps and Sitemeter for this reason... anyway, here's wishing everyone a speedy recovery from this blip... outages/blockages like this are bad for all of us in the analytics/geolocation business, so it's good for everyone to get this resolved soon, to restore user confidence!
  
  -The ClustrMaps Team
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  Janet Doe

  6 months ago

  Well, I am an IE 7 user (not by my choice) and I am unhappy because its SLOW! Mozilla foxfire is faster but interferes with my other programs. I downloaded IE 8 and its not any faster. this sucks! I wish ATT will go back to the way things used to be. that way, i can select my own browser and still access the net if I choose not to.
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  Games Girl

  6 months ago

  Firefox certainly doesn't interfere with any other programs. On the other hand updating IE can mess your OS up and you might need a system restore.
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  Utube

  6 months ago

  if people would use a modern browser such as Firefox or Opera such a thing wouldn't happen. You can bypass this kind of problem by adding sitemeter to the restricted sites from internet explorer.
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  Dating Advice | Dating TIps

  5 months ago

  I totally agree with dating girl, just switch to firefox :)
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