All of a sudden, I’m getting pr0n popups when I check my Sitemeter stats, what’s with that? So I’ll be changing to another counter immediately. Which do you recommend? A free one, I mean?
Doesn’t your host provide its own stats? Mine lays out some nicely detailed ones, Awestat, I think it’s called.
mig
Oh, sure, my provider provides several good stat programs, but they’re too detailed for a simple quick peek at stats from work, you know? I’m trying out the statcounter Miss A recommended, I like the invisiblity factor. And Extreme Tracking, I’ve used before, and like the way they accumulate referrer data.
Also, now I’m not so sure about those popups I was complaining about, since I only get them from work, not at home. Could it be we have something else in the system hijacking things? I visited one of the blogs on my blogroll a couple days ago and got a whole slew of very skanky popups there too, which struck me as odd for a blogspot blog.
sue
Sounds like a hi-jack to me. You could think of changing browsers- I did, to Firebird and then to firefox. You can kill pop-ups with either one.
A good clue to a hi-jack is to go to configuration and check out the internet settings. Look to see what has been set as your default home page.
mig
I think the counters were innocent – it didn’T happen when i checked from home, and it’s not happening anymore now. I’ve been hijacked before and it wasn’t that… Strange popups have happened to other people at work, I’ve heard, so it may have been something wandering around the LAN.
http://statcounter.com/
Doesn’t your host provide its own stats? Mine lays out some nicely detailed ones, Awestat, I think it’s called.
Oh, sure, my provider provides several good stat programs, but they’re too detailed for a simple quick peek at stats from work, you know? I’m trying out the statcounter Miss A recommended, I like the invisiblity factor. And Extreme Tracking, I’ve used before, and like the way they accumulate referrer data.
Also, now I’m not so sure about those popups I was complaining about, since I only get them from work, not at home. Could it be we have something else in the system hijacking things? I visited one of the blogs on my blogroll a couple days ago and got a whole slew of very skanky popups there too, which struck me as odd for a blogspot blog.
Sounds like a hi-jack to me. You could think of changing browsers- I did, to Firebird and then to firefox. You can kill pop-ups with either one.
A good clue to a hi-jack is to go to configuration and check out the internet settings. Look to see what has been set as your default home page.
I think the counters were innocent – it didn’T happen when i checked from home, and it’s not happening anymore now. I’ve been hijacked before and it wasn’t that… Strange popups have happened to other people at work, I’ve heard, so it may have been something wandering around the LAN.