There's still problems going on after their upgrade yesterday. You log in and are faced with an upgrade (you have to pay) or a migration. So you migrate and get a "well done, migration is successful" message then need to log in. Sitemeter have taken your address as the log in name (rather than the log in name that they initially gave to you) and your password is NOT the old password you have always used.Its a bit misleading as you are told to log in with your email address and also your password - the password is NOT your email address btw, so trying to log in with my email address and site meter password got me nowhere and I requested a new password.
I then tried to log in. Managed to do that and waded through pages geared to paying customers until I reached the area for the free sitemeter. Requested stats and see that my stats were loading.....five minutes later they were still loading.......twenty minutes later they were still loading......the new site looks pretty and may be easy to use (IF I can ever get stats loaded) but its geared to a big sell and pay money as the payers have details at their fingertips whereas the ones who don't pay have to wade through adverts and offers to upgrade before they can get to their details and, of course, the stats are forever 'still loading'. The instructions of how to migrate and what to do seem only available to view after you have migrated so its all hit and miss right now.
An excellent appraisal is given by a fellow blogger HERE
UPDATE:- they rolled back the program to its original form on Sunday night (14th) Sign in using your old name and password. I'll keep the program for reference but there's more information with far better access using sitemeter or histats.
5 points of view:
"It looks pretty."
Clicky looks pretty. The new SiteMeter looks like a pig with lipstick. Give me the old, quick loading, 1,000-lines of data per page version.
I totally agree with you. Just tried again, requested stats and saw "page loading" so took the dog to the beach. Came home an hour later and still see stats are loading. I'll keep it for the record of visitors to my blog but continue to use statcounter - its much easier, does more and takes a few seconds to open.
Yes I love statcounter. All the upgrades they do on that are just additions so it gets better all the time as they think of new ways of exploring stats.
BTW - the very nice people at clustermaps helped me with my lost password and I can now log in there again :-)
Oh, oh, I'm not looking forward to this. I know I have all my information written down, but you say it doesn't help. I had it remember all my info but that seems to have disappeared. Oh well, later!
Luckily I have statcounter too but I much preferred sitemeter.
jmb, give it a few days. The site has crashed and you only get "can't find that page" right now.
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