Starting with mine.

You other bloggers out there might want to check the performance of your sites if you’re using Site Meter. I noticed my site loads were hanging while I was doing some editing, and in checking out the activity window found that Site Meter is piggybacking another website’s services into its javascript. (I have no idea if that’s remotely accurate vocabulary; I’m not a real webmaster, I just play one on TV.) The loading of my site has been hanging while waiting for input from some craphouse called specificclick.net, which usually times out.

Turns out, it’s apparently a new cookie being foisted on us these last couple of days, and a few other unhappy bloggers (including a couple with big effing guns) are eschewing their services already.

Since I started blogging more about geek fodder, I’ve found that a lot of web service companies spend a lot of time keeping an eye on new posts about themselves, and they frequently drop by to comment and acknowledge the input. I hope Site Meter is in that category, ’cause the new cookie blows chunks on both performance and boundary fronts. In the meantime, fellow geeks, if you use the plain HTML version, the problem goes away; you’ll lose referral information (which sadly is the more valuable data), but you’ll keep count of traffic and your site will load a lot faster. And in this day and age, every precious Starbucks-accelerated second counts.

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