Screwy Sitemeter

14 Responses to “Screwy Sitemeter”

1. Val Prieto Says:
   January 15th, 2004 at 7:19 am

   Ive had zero hits today also. Site meter is definitely screwy.

2. boifromtroy Says:
   January 15th, 2004 at 9:51 am

   Hmmm…maybe people just aren’t coming…

   It is not happening to me today, but did a month ago, and it was on the day I was quoted by Kausfiles AND California Insider.

3. Xrlq Says:
   January 15th, 2004 at 10:00 am

   That can’t be the whole story, as SiteMeter also says no one was visiting at the time you and Val commented.

4. Justene Says:
   January 15th, 2004 at 10:37 am

   I had a remarkably low number this morning. less than 20 since midnight or something like that.

5. John A. Kalb Says:
   January 15th, 2004 at 11:08 am

   My Sitemeter wasn’t showing up last night, and it said that the page wasn’t available, but I got 70 hits yesterday, which is actually a little higher than my average, and I’ve got 35 so far today, which is within the normal range.

6. SayUncle Says:
   January 15th, 2004 at 11:12 am

   I stopped using sitemeter for a long time (because i estimate based on other software i use) that sitemeter mises about 30% of my visits. Yesterday, for example, SM shows 350ish visits. Awstats shows 530 visits. The discrepency in pages is much bigger (1591 v. 650ish).

   I went back to it so i could play in the TLB site rankings but I rely more on Awstats.

7. boifromtroy Says:
   January 15th, 2004 at 11:21 am

   …I also saw a vistor from NBC.com referred from my site on someone else’s sitemeter, but they never appeared on mine…

8. dowingba Says:
   January 15th, 2004 at 12:53 pm

   Yes Sitemeter definitely doesn’t count stats very accurately, and I too use AWstats as my final judge. I think one reason is that the sitemeter graphic has to actually load for a visit to count, and sometimes it might load too slow, or not load at all. Also, if someone doesn’t have javascript enabled, they wouldn’t be counted at all, unless I am mistaken. I’ve also seen the graphic on my page appear twice, side by side, for some reason, every once in a while. So I guess that’s Sitemeter trying to make up the difference.

9. John A. Kalb Says:
   January 15th, 2004 at 1:38 pm

   From what I remember, there is a non-java version of the sitemeter counter, though most people don’t use it.

   I did see a decline in page views (which is all AXS’ counter shows) when I went to Sitemeter, but I didn’t know what that was from.

10. triticale Says:
    January 15th, 2004 at 1:42 pm

    Sitemeter shows 23 hits so far today, on an average of 24. Unfortunately, a lot of these look to be people researching the grain whose name I use, but at least I can say the counter is spinning.

11. Justene Says:
    January 16th, 2004 at 11:26 am

    What’s there to research about triticale? Tribbles eat it.

    This morning, I had 13 visitors, an hour or so later, I had 243, another hour or so, 95. Try to explain that away as anything other than: sitemeter is screwed up.

12. McGehee Says:
    January 16th, 2004 at 2:29 pm

    Tribbles eat quadrotriticale. Which I guess means the grain has twelve lobes instead of three.

13. triticale Says:
    January 16th, 2004 at 3:46 pm

    And it took a miracle of lobes and fishes to feed all the tribbles…

14. BoiFromTroy Says:
    January 23rd, 2004 at 4:02 pm

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