SiteMeter Causes Sites to Crash in IE
I’ve been on a lengthy investigation, trying to determine why one of my sites is not working, intermittently. I’ve been getting emails from friends who say they cannot access my site. (Not this site, my Freaky Frugalite blog). What’s weird is that all these things from all sorts of places started going wrong at the same time! It was uncanny! I installed a new theme, I installed SiteMeter as a web stat counter, my web host had DNS problems (that they say they resolved), and ?? So now I am having problems crop up, and I can’t tell what it is. Weird!
Anyway, I found this news article while searching and thought it might be helpful for you SiteMeter users. Apparently, the javascript code for SiteMeter has been causing sites to crash for people using Internet Explorer. See here and here for more information.
This goes back to August 2, 2008. I don’t know if SiteMeter still has the issue. One fix I’d heard, besides removing the code from your site, is to place the code at the very bottom of your footer, so that the code will load last. That is what I am attempting right now. We’ll see if it works.
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Hi Liz. From what I have gathered, the html Sitemeter code was never the problem, it was the alternative javascript SiteMeter code that some were using. I thought there was a fix, too… but then I heard it came back, and then I didn’t hear much. Actually, it’s been a problem for a long time, for various sites.
If you use the html code, I don’t think you’ll ever have a problem. So maybe everyone switched to that, and now it’s “resolved.” I’ve not heard much on the topic since the initial flurry of news in early August.
About half the blogs in the world went down with that bug! I thought they had fixed it. In fact, only this last week, I returned the sitemeter code to my blog and it seems okay.