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Yes, I Know, Thanks

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A lot of people have been emailing me about problems loading the site. It’s getting hung up on a call to the server b.scorecardresearch.com, which I think is part of Google Analytics’ way of tracking my traffic. If anyone has any suggestions about what to do about this (up to and including disabling GA), I’m all ears.

12 thoughts on “Yes, I Know, Thanks”

  2. For what it may be worth, it only happens to me when using the current verson of Firefox on my XP Pro desktop. IE works OK there, as does the same version of Firefox on a Vista-64 laptop…

  3. The site works fine for me under IE 8 and Windows 7. Under my preferred browser, Firefox (3.6.6) I get a white screen that I can sometimes, but not always, get past to your main page by hitting the return-to-previous-page button twice in rapid succession. I’d say this only works maybe 1/4 of the time.

    About disabling GA, I don’t really know what that is. Do you derive any benefit – especially economic – from having its code on your site? If not, I say dump it. If GA is getting you something, money or otherwise, then I’m willing to soldier on by pulling links off of an IE window and pasting them into FF, then hitting the refresh key to bypass the scorecardresearch hangup and get a usable (on FF) version of any post or comment string I really want to look at/add to. It’s annoying, but doable. Yours and Insty’s are the only blogs for which I’d put up with such inconvenience to assure continued access – for whatever that may be worth in the way of psychological capital.

  4. Works fine in Firefox 3.6.6 for me, even with multiple tabs open as I find that’s the fastest way to get at new comments. I try to hit your site at least twice a day; Insty, Drudge, and TransTerrestrial Musings is my usual pattern after loading Firefox and checking the Weatherunderground radar for my area. So thanks for all you do and put up with to keep us informed!

  5. Get a hold of the Jawas they had the same problem on their site.

    Who hasn’t read the Jawa Report? http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/

    Think they narrowed the problem down to one of the banner adds. They seem cool, I bet if you sent an email they would help you out.

  8. Happened to me here yesterday and the day before running XP and FF 3.6 . Googled the b.scardresearch term and found then installed the the Fire Fox “NoScript” add on.

    The script blocker, blocks all scripts unless you give permission takes some getting used to but I will keep it on for a few days.

    Transterrestrial was the only site I had troubles with but now I find there are many, many browsing traffic scripts out there.

  9. Happened to me here yesterday and the day before running XP and FF 3.6. I Googled the b.scardresearch term and found then installed the the Fire Fox “NoScript” add on.

    The script blocker lists and stops all scripts on a page unless you give permission. It takes some getting used to but I will keep it on for a few days. For me it even takes time to get used to typing in an E-mail address correctly. I just sent this note using the wrong extension to the right account.

    Transterrestrial was the only site I had troubles with, but now I find there are many, many. browsing traffic and ad traffic scripts out there.

  10. Wes, thanks. I added that on, and the page load is the fastest it has ever been. Prior to that, I had left a load attempt (Firefox3.6.6) go for three and a half hours.

    IE 8 didn’t seem to have any trouble at all, but I don’t use it if I can avoid it. NoScript does the trick.

  11. I also added noscript to firefox here, which got the site loading again. I allowed transterrestrial.com, google-analytics.com, technorati.com, sitemeter.com, amazon.com, and specificclick.net with NO issue. When I also allow technoratimedia.com, the page will no longer load.

    technoratimedia.com is referenced in http://embed.technorati.com/embed/swhcwvgg89.js. This script references http://ad-cdn.technoratimedia.com/ads/tm_pixel_gen.js which references b.scorecardresearch.com. I have no idea if any of this information is of any use whatsoever.

  12. Same with me Hal. The technorati script is the hang up. Yesterday I couldn’t get to Transterrestrial at all for about 16 hrs. I was worried I did something wrong with NoScript but a call to my IP and it was their problem. I think a name server got corrupted. Sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence.

    I am liking NoScript more the longer I use it. Being on dial-up anything that speeds load time is good.

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