Sitemeter suddenly decided to put a bunch of tracking cookies (not normal ones, these border on spyware!) in its javascript code. I had been using them for around 9 months to track my traffic, but the addition of the tracking cookies at the end of March suddenly made my site slower. I was unaware that it was due to sitemeter, and thought the webhost was just being crappy. Lo and behold, a friend clued me in that the site was asking to put in a tracking cooking in Opera, a browser I don’t test the site in (Firefox and IE don’t pull up an alarm.) Slowing down my site is a crime against TarsTarkas.NET! We don’t get hurt, we get even, and dumped sitemeter like the dog it is! We welcome the new webtracker, StatCounter!
To show how the sitemeter tracking cookie worked, I got another notch up on the sitemeter today, despite removing the code three days ago. 77,732 is what sitemeter will go to rest as.
