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Basic Math

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I will say this, if Sitemeter hasn’t fixed this by the end of the day Friday I’ll be ditching them.

In the mean time, lets do a basic math lesson.

Early in the day (8:30am or so) on Aug 2nd my total visits according to Sitemeter was 2993.  You’ll have to take my word for that as I wasn’t smart enough to take a screen shot (You’ll also have to take my word for the fact that it ought to have been closer to 3993 as I didn’t take a screen shot of that either).

According to Sitemeter, here are my visits for Aug 2nd and since.  (this does not include MY personal visits):

So, some math: 2993 + 120 (SOME of the visits from Aug 2nd had already hit by that time, no idea how many but I’ll guess) + 117+65+37+41=3373 visits.  Right?

Here’s a screenshot from my Sitememter account as of about a minute before I started typing this:

Strange how it doesn’t add up huh?  Yes, I’m pissed, how could you tell?

Categories Nothing Much

Sitemeter, I think you’re in trouble….

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A screenshot from my new Statcounter stats:

People searching for help on why their Sitemeter account is screwy, and has been for days, have hit my sitemeter posts 3 (almost 4!) times the number of people coming into the main page.  Based on the comments I’ve been getting I’m not the only one who’s help tickets are being ignored either.  Now I can believe they’re so over whelmed with tickets that its just taking time….except we’re talking basic coding issues here, basic MATH issues here, that tell me there’s a deeper problem than just data lost during a server move.

Categories Nothing Much

Wasps in the well pump.

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We’re on city water, but when they switched the house over the owner at the time attached a manual water pump to the well.  Its decorative, but it DOES work, and we try to keep in in repair as a backup water source. 

We’ve been a bit neglectfull this year, and didn’t use it till a couple weeks ago.  And sure enough the wasps have made a nest inside the thing (yes its wasps, not the hornets with the giant nest, thankfully).  We’ve tried drowning the nest, repeatedly, but they just keep coming back.  Needless to say this is not a spot where wasp spray is a good idea.

Any ideas as to how to get rid of the nest or are we stuck till it gets cold?

Categories Rants

Sitemeter problems, part 3

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Part 1, part 2

 

Well, in the week since this started, they’ve fixed the issues with the logo screwing up the page, and as of about 7pm EST yesterday they appear to have fixed it so that all new IP’s are listed correctly.  My visits count is still screwy though.  I should be over 4k at this point, not barely over 3k…..not to mention that its not adding visits to the total correctly.  The counter went from 2993 visits early in the day Aug 2 to 3111 visits as of right now.  According to Sitemeter’s own counts on Aug 2 I had 148 visits, and on Aug 3rd I had 117, and so far this morning I’ve had 20….if the Sitemeter folks need someone to come in and explain basic math I’d be delighted to do so……

I CAN just look at the stats as provided by the server, and I do generally keep an eye on them, but I found Sitemeter convient and was actually considering paying for an account since my daily hits have reached a high enough average number to make being only able to see the last 100 annoying.  Not so much any more.  I’ve installed StatCounter, we’ll see how that goes….

Categories Rants

Sitemeter problems, part 2

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Well, they fixed the code on their end, so its not screwing up my page any more…..instead they’ve screwed up my stats.

Before the problems last week I was approaching 4k visits.  Don’t recall the exact number but I remember thinking I was less than a week to 4k.

After it came back it was showing 3300+ visits.  Odd, but I couldn’t swear for sure what the exact number had been before…..

Now its showing LESS than 3k visits AND its showing all the IP address as the same thing regardless of the visitor…..

Arg!

I don’t want to switch to Google’s Analytics.  Are there any OTHER options?  Yes the server keeps track TOO, but its not as easy to work with….