it's a quite common occurrence here. twitter and instagram get blocked regularly for a few days, even during smaller incidents.

discord is also blocked since last year. not sure the reason. some lgbtq stuff i think.

and when there's an event that could cause uproar, certain areas just get blocked with fences and hundreds of police officers.

it can be quite annoying for me, since i live in the center of istanbul. during women's day two weeks ago for example, i almost couldn't get home since i forgot to take my passport and had to argue with 5 different police to let me through without proof of address. took an hour or so extra.

this happens about 3-4 times a year.

it's a shame, because turkey is actually a really nice place to live, and the people in general are very modern and nice. but every now and then, you get reminded of how good we have it in terms of freedom in most western countries.

how do you calculate the session duration? is it the delta between two page hits or similar events?

i tried a couple of the smaller analytics tools, like plausible, simpleanalytics, umami etc... and one thing that i always disliked was the way the session duration was calculated - i have a lot of longer articles where the visitor stays for a long time and then leaves. most of these tools will count that as a bounce, as there is no two hits to calculate the delta between. but for me it is a very important metric to get accurate numbers on, which is impossible with that implementation for sites like mine (very few but long page visits, not a lot of navigation between pages).

do you handle this the same way? that would be a feature i'd be willing to switch my current tool out for.