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New Sitemeter Really Sucks

Sitemeter, a famous service which provides counter and tracking information for Web sites, moved to new home today. They changed the interface and stats.

Let me tell why i use sitemeter on my sites;

1-) It’s easy to follow a “single” user.
2-) Easily trackable Referral stats
3-) Simplicity
4-) Widely reported daily stats. This is why i use Sitemeter instead of Google Analytics.

Let me tell why i probably give up New Sitemeter

1-) It’s not easy to follow a “single” user.
2-) Chaotic flash interface. I really lost myself.
3-) Additional useless stats
4-) Not-Browser Friendly Web Design. Dancing pages will drive you crazy.
5-) Bugs around.

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Let me tell why i probably give up New Sitemeter

1-) Many people will stop adding new sitemeter accounts.
2-) Sitemeter’s on of the biggest revenue source “Google Adsense” will not work with this flash interface.
3-) When Google Analytics start to track every single ad click (soon), many people will switch.
4-) Simplicity is survival of the Web and Sitemeter couldn’t realised it.
5-) Sitemeter did not ask users what do you need, what do you expect from the service.
6-) Controlling all sites from one account was a good idea. But the rest is not.
7-) Flash interface is poorly designed, narrow and unreadable.
8- ) I searched for a “old sitemeter design” link. But i couldn’t.  This is what i urgently want from Sitemeter.
9-) I have also paid accounts at sitemeter. Probably i’ll cancel them.  Even statcounter is better than new sitemeter.

Some other Blog Posts around the Web That Think like me;

New SiteMeter is much less usable than the old one
I Hate The New Sitemeter
Bye-bye SiteMeter
I hate hate hate hate the new SiteMeter.
They’ve ruined SiteMeter
[sitemeter] if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
Sitemeter has changed
The New Sitemeter is much much worse
Why Sitemeter, why?
Kit·Blog Notes — Sitemeter redesiged, killed

Edit: Sitemeter listened to Aftnews and It’s Users and Now They’re Rolling Back to The Former System

By Ludvig Zavoisky on Sep 14, 2008

Comments

13 Comments

  • At 2008.09.14 10:45, jeremy said:

    Yeah, they never ask us what we need, what we expect. The new system just like a joke. I want it to be a nightmare. I have more than 20 web sites at sitemeter and now i can’t reach any of them’s stats. I wrote all of the code names and passwords at the beginning but when i logged in to my account, i saw only one account. Now i’m trying to add a new site to account but it adds “new sitemeters”, not the existing ones.

    I’m really angry to you Sitemeter! Why did you do this to us???? It’s just a suicide guys, no one give a damn on your stupid flash charts. If flash charts were what we’re expecting, we should choose google analytics instead of your rubbish.

    Fix it, Change it, do it, anyway but do something for that.

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    • At 2008.09.14 11:00, Mohammed said:

      I agree, the new sitemeter is completely unusable. They have also removed a lot of features from the free service. I have just switched to statcounter, it’s not as good as the old sitemeter but it’s definitely better than the new one.

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      • At 2008.09.14 12:34, Hello said:

        I just want to be able to click and get refs so I know where people are seeing my site- what is all the extra junk it makes NO sense! Where are the simple site refs? That is what I want to know not all this graph crap. They really blew it.

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        • At 2008.09.14 12:38, sandman said:

          I’m not only surprised, also angry with that. Average internet people can decide this will suck. Can’t you realise why people choose google?

          anyway, if nothing change in a week, i’ll give up too.

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          • At 2008.09.14 12:42, pearlove said:

            i agree with you, new sitemeter is really sucks

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            • At 2008.09.14 13:23, Gigababy said:

              I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO PISSED IN MY LIFE.
              AND I HAVE A PREMIUM ACCOUNT. Sorry for yelling.

              http://gigababy.blogspot.com/2008/09/dear-folks-at-sitemeter.html

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              • At 2008.09.14 16:49, anonymailer said:

                You know they are also acting like a baby. Today I spent my whole day to convert and create(migrate old accounts) and as I see now they are just rolling back to former system… This is really weird.

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                • At 2008.09.16 03:43, Amit said:

                  Maybe the new sitemeter sucks !

                  it doesn’t matter to me as i am not using it !

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