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Is anyone else not terribly impressed with SiteMeter‘s new, “improved” version?
I admit it – I am a cheap-assed bum, and run their free version, so it has always been a neutered and lobotomized tool for me. However, one of the useful aspects of it was always being able to see what sites were referring to mine – mostly Google searches, granted, but still interesting. Now, the only way I can find to do that with the new interface is to go through the Visitor Detail Report, one item at a time, clicking and selecting each time around. Hardly seems efficient to me. I guess the feature I am looking for is now called the “Path Report”, and, oh yeah, it is a “Premium Account Feature”.
*sigh*
I guess I am a free user, so I do not really have a place to complain.
Oh, and changing the entire interface over to Flash – sucktacular idea. Period. Having lived and worked with horrifically slow internet connections for the past four years of my life, I can confess just how diabolically evil Flash/javascript/Ajax/etc. really is.
At any rate, I guess I will just end up relying on my own site’s stat counter more… but, still, bad “upgrade” choices, SiteMeter.
Update: Looks like SiteMeter caught the drift:

As you’re no doubt aware by now, we’ve chosen to roll back our website to the previous “classic” version.

Unfortunately, they did this too late – I have already implemented an instance of StatCounter (at Brigid’s suggestion) on my site, and I have to admit to being more impressed with it than SiteMeter.
However, this is where I ask for help: Every time I try to go back and access SiteMeter again, I get redirected here – every single time. I am not sure if the problem is IE7, Vista’s IE7, or just my IE7, but any help would be greatly appreciated!

1 comment to dumbing it down

  • here cavalry, cavalry, cavalry

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