Aftnews, started a campaign and buzz over the internet to save Sitemeter from a very big mistake.
Currently, there is a surprising note on the front page of Sitemeter;
We are in the process of rolling back SiteMeter to the former system.
SiteMeter should be back online soon.
Please check back later.
Sorry for inconvenience.
Sincerely, SiteMeter Support Team.
Hey Sitemeter Guys, you didn’t ask us what do you expect from Sitemeter but you did what we want at the end. Now please bring us “all sites at one account property with previous sitemeter interface“.
Thank You Guys, Now i triple times love Sitemeter and i’ll keep on supporting you. I won’t ask you what was that, why was that.
Here is The Sitemeter’s Official Open Letter;
Dear Valued SiteMeter Customers,
As you’re no doubt aware by now, we’ve chosen to roll back our website to the previous “classic” version.
Based on some performance issues we were experiencing along with feedback from the community it appears we have pushed our new site live prematurely.
Our intention is and has always been to offer you, our customer’s better tools and more accurate data. Obviously we fell short of this. The first thing we need to do, moving forward, is to roll out new product releases in parallel to our current platform. This will give everyone a chance to try out, evaluate, and comment on our new concepts.
We would also like to take this opportunity to ask those of you who had issues or concerns with the new site to participate in future beta testing. We had originally asked for Beta Tester in two of our newsletters sent earlier this year so we’re eager to build our beta group even larger. If you’re interested in participating please send us an email using our support ticketing system with BETA TESTER in the subject line of your email.
In the near term we’ll be evaluating the performance issues and feedback from our community. If you have additional input that would help us build you a better product we’d like to hear from you.
We apologize for the botched rollout and will do our best to make sure the next time we do this it has your full support and blessing.
Sincerely,
The SiteMeter Team
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.
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
