My friends over at Sitemeter released an improved UI and will roll it out over the next few weeks. I guess it is not official yet, but a bunch of guys broke the news earlier today. I will test and write about the new release as soon I have the official Go.
Here a first screenshot to give you and idea how it is going to look:
Update: The official re-launch actually happened this morning. I will get into details at a later point today.
Update2: An official statement from Sitemeter:
“Over the next few days we will be addressing a number of issues with the new site including optimizing the load times, getting the blog feed to update correctly, tweaking some graphs with the new stats and a handful of other minor fixes.”
So please give the guys some time. They have a few hundred thousand customers and it takes some time to roll it out to everybody.
Update 3: Another official statement: “We are working on a fix to correct the problem with ads displaying within a premium account. “
May 9th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I’m hacked off. It appears that the new system takes away services from the free version. I can no longer get graphs of daily, weekly, yearly etc.
May 9th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Great, I’m always using sitemeter as a tracker on all of my site.
One of them is my personal web : http://www.angellica2017.com
The statistics is very accurate for tracking website’s activities.
I hope in the future they improving detect out click at advertisements such as AdSense and YPN.
May 9th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
I appreciate the work they put into upgrading…
buuuut I actually liked the green statistics graphs they used to have much more than the newer orange stat bars.
The reason? Not color, but because the old graphs used continuous lines, while the new graphs are distinct “skyscraper” bars.
Visually speaking, the old continuous style was a better and easier visual read.
Let’s hope they go back to the continuous style (no matter the color) or at least give an option to select your style.
May 9th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Congratulations on the new interface. It looks classy and elegant.
May 10th, 2007 at 12:21 am
And in the meantime, I can’t view my stats, lol. Main page is fine but whenever you click into a category of stats, you go to some weird page with ads and news on it. Someone broke SiteMeter me thinks
May 10th, 2007 at 4:31 am
All I know is that it was OK as it stood and now it’s not working anymore. Who wants unsolicited improvements that don’t work?
May 10th, 2007 at 4:36 am
Alright, ignore my previous message. I had to log in again and now it’s working.
May 10th, 2007 at 10:14 am
One of the promises to paying customers of Site Meter was that it is “ad free”.
Now we have to look at humongous ads at the top of every page after we log in, which causes you to have to scroll down to view the very data that we are paying for.
Looks like it might be time to find something to replace Site Meter.for my sites.
May 10th, 2007 at 10:50 am
I’m all about giving time for upgrades, but I can’t even find anything that shows me what the new tool will provide. I don’t care for the new graphics, AND I have banner ads loading on every site.. isn’t that why I went premium?
Not a happy camper. But willing to give time.
May 10th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
My issue is that I have 3 blogs with three different sitemeter accounts (all free) and it used to be that I’d get my main page and then I could click on “location” and see where my hits are coming from. Now it works on the first page but when you click on “location” it goes to the stats for whichever of my 3 blogs I’ve last logged into on Sitemeter. (When I didn’t used to have to log in at all to see these stats). So it’s very annoying to have to log out of sitemeter, then find my user name and password from my old e-mail from them, and then log in just to see that information.
Is this being fixed, does anyone know?
May 10th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
I really don’t like the new set-up. I have a number of sitemeters for a variety of sites, and now I have to log in and log out each time I try to view one. Before I could view any of them without logging in.
May 10th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
I liked it the way it was. Now I can’t get the monthly report or any of the other reports. I don’t mind the ads but don’t take away functions.
May 10th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
It’s terrible that they make you log in now to see who is visiting even though I have it set to public. I lost my password and they haven’t sent me a new one. What a disaster. I would switch to Google Analytics but then I would have to start at zero traffic. I might switch anyway.
May 10th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
My 2 unimportant cents:
It’s day one of this major re-launch! Give it a week or two and you will be happy again. A banner here or a login problem there is not bad at all. I saw high-end web analytics solutions, that charge $100k+ per year going down for a few days and loosing all the data. As long as your data is recorded, you are fine.
May 11th, 2007 at 5:51 am
Here an official statement. First fix is on it’s way:
We are working on a fix to correct the problem with ads displaying within a premium account.
May 11th, 2007 at 8:30 am
You launch things in beta mode first — not expect paying folks to put up with gross errors like this — even for a day — especially without even warning them by email or anything in advance (and not responding to ANY support emails, etc.)
Really sloppy, sitemeter.
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