I ran across an online tool for you to look at your website stats at Statsaholic.com. You can enter up to 5 domain names at a time. So I decided to test it out.

I entered in utterlygeek.com and I got this screen:

So I clicked on the “10-second fix” that brought me here:

WHOA!

It appears that Alexa has shut off their traffic graphs on all the websites of the world, with the exception of their own, Alexa.com. The sadly ironic part of this is that they’ve apparently broken their own widgets, too — all in an effort to shut down Statsaholic.

Instructions “10-second fix”

1. Make sure you’re using Firefox v2 (this may work with Firefox v1, but I haven’t tested)

2. Type “about:config” in the address (url) field, and hit Enter

3. Find the “network.http.sendRefererHeader” property by typing “refer” into the Filter: field

4. Double-click that property, and set its integer value to “0” in the prompt.

5. You’re done! Go back to Statsaholic and see the graphs in all their glory.

So I did that, and now I can see the graph.

Wouldn’t it have been easier just to go to Alexa? I’m not seeing what the big deal is here. Does anyone know?

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