Jetpack Lite
by Samuel Aguilera · Analytics
Also makes 11 other plugins · 86.8K+ installs across the portfolio →
Prevents Jetpack from loading any modules except for Stats and WP.me Shortlinks modules. Jetpack is required!
37 health vs 64 average across 1,029 Analytics plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.31, well behind 6.8.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 2993 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
99
now · peak 108
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
8.2y ago
latest release · v3.0
12
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “600+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2015-04-01 · 1,432 observations
Estimated value
What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.
Est. annual revenue
Est. acquisition value
A small install base leaves thin data to model from.
How we estimate this
Assumptions
- Free → paid conversion. 0.5%–2% of active installs pay for the pro tier. Typical for freemium WordPress plugins; the real rate varies a lot by product.
- Annual price per customer. $99–$199 a year, typical for Analytics plugins rather than this plugin's own pricing.
- Acquisition multiple. 2.5x–4.5x annual revenue, the going range for small WordPress-plugin businesses, stretched a little because downloads are growing.
- Install base. 600–700 active installs, from our install estimate (wp.org only publishes the floor).
Inputs
- Active installs
- 600–700
- Category
- Analytics
- Pro tier
- detected ("Lite" naming, the free tier of a paid product)
- Download trend
- growing (30d downloads up vs prior 30d)
- Reviews
- 15
- Last updated
- 2993 days ago
Revenue is installs × conversion × price; value is revenue × a typical acquisition multiple. Every factor is an assumption band, so the output is a wide range on purpose. If you're buying or selling, treat this as a starting point for due diligence.
Details
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ misbolsos10.4y ago
Este plugin debemos usarlo todos para nuestro blogs ya lo uso en algún blog. Estoy por instalarlo en uno que estoy haciendo ahora bolsos de piel
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ altimaste10.4y ago
Crashes website~
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Type Historian11.6y ago
“What were they thinking?“ I’m building a related site with WP 4.1, and I really miss it! I had to delete the “Whole Enchilada” JetPack plug-in: Even when I enabled only certain features (most important, the stats overview), it bloated the HTML code with disabled ones and dramatically slowed down performance. Many thanks for your hard work on a superior plug-in, Anna
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Matthew12.4y ago
Slim Jetpack is way better. This just removes all the good modules in Jetpack by WordPress, and you still need to have Jetpack by WordPress installed.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Herbythyme12.6y ago
Had I wanted Jetpak I would have used it. In order to use Jetpak Lite you now need to install Jetpak – while I appreciate the plugin the way it was the current format is not what I want.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Chadwickhugh12.6y ago
I have really liked this plugin in, because Jetpack created issues on my blog, but I wanted the stats. It worked great, but the latest version requires installing the full Jetpack plugin, so what’s the point?
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ bizkit0112.6y ago
This is ridiculous. I also had an issue with the upgrade completely killing my site, and now “Jetpack Lite” requires the full Jetpack plugin to be running – which the whole point of the plugin was to not have to have the full Jetpack installed. 1 strike and you’re out. Uninstall Jetpack Lite before it breaks your site, you can enable only Stats in the full Jetpack without having this guy’s buggy code (and bad attitude) do it for you. Really, you run a raw “if ( ! is_plugin_active( ‘jetpack/jetpack.php’ ) )” and completely break a site if they didn’t have Jetpack installed? (This was the code before the 3.0.1 update), and have the nerve to post “Your WordPress installation is your responsability not mine (SIC)” before the above code is found out? That’s ridiculous.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ MarkRH12.6y ago
First I do want to give a heads-up on one thing. If you are using a version prior to 3.0, this plug-in needs to be updated to version 3.0.2 before activating Jetpack. If you don’t, Jetpack (v2.7 at the time) may fail to activate (it did for me with a fatal error) because it was trying to execute some Jetpack Lite code instead and was trying to include a file which didn’t exist. Anyway, after I updated Jetpack-Lite to 3.0.2, I was able to then activate Jetpack without any problems. The only visible modules in the Jetpack screen are the Stats and WP.ME modules and my blog’s performance is the same as before.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-20 700+ → 600+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2026-06-18 600+ → 700+ up after 6 days in tier
- 2026-06-12 700+ → 600+ down after 221 days in tier
- 2025-11-03 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-11-02 700+ → 800+ up after 5 days in tier
- 2025-10-28 800+ → 700+ down after 223 days in tier
- 2025-03-19 900+ → 800+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-03-18 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
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