I've always avoided Google Analytics from sheer paranoia they're going to eat my affiliate sites.
I've not looked at Matomo/piwik in years but I'd be very surprised if session analytics isn't in there somewhere, its just a confusing UI. But I've been very happy with Clicky.com for small websites, which will let you see individual user's paths (though not in aggregate), track goals, campaigns etc, and I've also been playing more with Mixpanel on larger event driven sites. I think we need more options, and hopefully this backlash will lead to more choice, but for now I'm pretty happy with one simple option and one that is above my needs.
I've always avoided Google Analytics from sheer paranoia they're going to eat my affiliate sites.
I've not looked at Matomo/piwik in years but I'd be very surprised if session analytics isn't in there somewhere, its just a confusing UI. But I've been very happy with Clicky.com for small websites, which will let you see individual user's paths (though not in aggregate), track goals, campaigns etc, and I've also been playing more with Mixpanel on larger event driven sites. I think we need more options, and hopefully this backlash will lead to more choice, but for now I'm pretty happy with one simple option and one that is above my needs.