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Starting yesterday, Sitemeter has caused thousands of blogs to fail in Internet Explorer 7 for some reason. Both Hot Air and Michelle Malkin sites have been affected. According to Charles Johnson, the problem exists on Sitemeter’s own website. It appears that Sitemeter changed its coding yesterday without warning its users, and without testing it before going live with the changes. In a way, I feel a little silly posting this, because the people who really need to read this won’t be able to access it, and the people who can read this won’t have the problem. It only affects IE7;...

 « View all web results for SiteMeter Web Sites Using SiteMeter Are Crashing with Internet ExplorerWired News - 2 hours ago By Kim Zetter August 02, 2008 | 4:23:19 AMCategories: Glitches and Bugs A number of web sites that use SiteMeter tracking code to monitor the number of ... Attention Sitemeter Users: Your Site is DownMashable, CA - 3 hours ago Because they use SiteMeter, a popular free traffic metrics utility. As of this moment, there hasn’t been any official statement from SiteMeter via their ... SiteMeter causing blogs and websites to crash in Microsoft's ...Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog, WA - 7 hours ago...

I’ve confirmed that there’s some kind of problem on the Internet, that only seems to affect users of the Internet Explorer 7 web browser. Attempting to browse to many sites results in an ‘Operation Aborted’ error. No information about the problem elsewhere yet ... stay tuned. UPDATE at 8/1/08 7:20:27 pm: It appears to be related to Sitemeter.com — browsing to their web site with Internet Explorer 7 produces the error too.

Hey! What happened? I went to check the hits to the DUmmie FUnnies and precisely at 5 P.M. today the hits suddenly stopped. Since I had a regular flow of hits before that it has to be something up with Site Meter. However, I checked another BlogSpot blog that has Site Meter and their hits didn't stop at all today. So what's up? I'm concerned. I monitor those hits (plus referring sites) very closely.