Goodbye Sitemeter!
Folks were wondering why I closed my Sitemeter counter since last two days, and some even sent me emails asking about it.
So OK, I did contact the "system administrator" three days ago. Until now, no reply, nothing, nada.
Could their server and particularly "sm7" have serious problems? A quick search on Google with "+sm7 +sitemeter" reveals that a lot of other accounts on server-sm7 are functional. And for several days Sitemeter used to stop and start my counters; as several hours used to register nothing but 0 (unbelievable, when readers were posting comments at the same time)!
Maybe this is an opportunity for them to force me to upgrade? After all, See Lai has huge traffic and if you also count the page views, See Lai's page-view figure was even higher than Instapundit; as thousands of readers visit the hundreds of beauties almost daily.
But if that was the case, how about sending me an email informing me that my free counter (though not exactly free, as they used to display their ads on my stats page) services were about to be suspended? My email address is right up there for the world to see (and in their records), or is Sitemeter run by Stevie Wonder?
Well, to me it looks like Sitemeter wants to stop their (so called) free service for See Lai due to heavy traffic and pageviews. Fair enough. But what bugs me is that how can Instapundit and others get away with using free Sitemeter with say 1.2 million pageviews per week, and See Lai, also bordering on 1.2 or 1.3 million pageviews per week has to be "blocked?"
"But you are a porn site, you see?" They might argue as Truefresco referrers (also ad based) argued with me last week and also blocked my (right side bar) referrers list (which is why it is no more) unless I paid couple of dollars a month to see who links to me!
Oh yeah? Do you see any freaking porn advertisements or request for your credit card details and say $4.99 subscription fee? And how about the other regular stories and features I have instead of just women?
There are thousands of "Sex Blogs" around the world, and no, not everyone wants to write about Bush, Iraq, and stupid brainwashing politics on their blogs. But I rest my case.
Now, if I want to continue using Sitemeter, from their "upgrade account" table, I see that for a site with "1 million to 2 million pageviews per month" (get out of here, we do that in a week), I need to pay US$49.95 per month!
Just in two months after I placed Sitemeter counter on all albums, my pageviews count jumped up from 3 million to 11 million something!
And now I need to pay friggin' 50 bucks every month to tell me who is coming from where and how often? That too, because I am ego-hungry and want to stroke my ego of how I was listed among top 30 blogs (by traffic rank) on a stupid site called "The Truth Laid Bear?"
No thanks, I will pass. And even if I go for a paid counter to supplement my Typepad raw (and hopelessly raw at that) statistics, I won't be selecting Sitemeter that even sucks in most of its reports and services.
As far as I am concerned, it is about time to say, "Goodbye Sitemeter, and yes, fuckoff!"
For the record, the last count (and also not very accurate) was 1, 440, 358 for unique visitors, and 11, 279, 834 for page views. When I start a new counter, I will add these figures alongside the missing three days' stats.
Cheers!
Note:
1) Sitemeter counter code will be removed from all pages of See Lai within a week. The current button would have taken you to the message I have linked above in a downloaded screenshot.
2) Fuck the bandwidth and fuck the stats, but yes, do go ahead and enjoy the pictures. I will be moving to a huge host as soon as I return from the hospital (if I do).





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