SiteMeter.com just committed Suicide

It used to be my favorite analytics service for my little blog, over all the others. Why? because it was damn fast to load, access and simple to view and digest. Overnight, with a new design and a TERRIBLE migration login process i think the service just lost it.

Sitemeter.com is now SO slow, i was used to access Sitemeter with a URL shortcut pointing to a specific page i liked, this is now over. And worse, my favorite page/stat has disappeared: sources, so i could see where my traffic was coming from URL by URL

I am done with sitemeter. They obviously tried to take the service a step further moving to more sophisticated UI and services (in order to get a premium). They totally failed in keeping the original spirit. I assume most of their users were using the free version for the same reason. I am sure many will feel like me

Moving to Google Analytics. More conversation about that on Techmeme

Question: can anyone point to an alternative service giving access to chronological sources where i can see, link by link where my traffic is coming from? Goog analytics and Whosamong.us are not providing that either

update: big surprise this am. my source page is back on sitemeter, but on the old format/site. looks like they are keeping both versions for now. until they decide to kill it


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