Paying for stats kills the plugin

  • The stats feature is the only reason to keep the plugin installed on most sites because they’re easy to understand and convenient. That gives you an opportunity to sell your backup solution (which is actually a good one, but expensive considering you max out at 10 GB), your protection (which is fine but not a market leader), your search (which is kinda ridiculous but it works), your spam protection (which is needed), boost (don’t even get us started about boost), and videopress (which is an amazing product that’s underutilized but needs to work with the WP media library on the site).

    Instead of charging for stats, you should keep them free, and ditch the free WAF and CDN. Charge users who need the WAF for the WAF and charge users who use the CDN for the CDN (but make it a better CDN).

    Also – give users an option to offload their media via jetpack and charge us for that storage. But the stats…keep those free because they’re not enough to pay for given the alternatives.

    GA is free.
    Cloudflare is free.
    Fathom is better but costs a little more.

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  • Plugin Support Tamirat B. (a11n)

    (@tamirat22)

    Hi @embrasurespace,

    Thank you for sharing your feedback about Jetpack’s features. Feedback like this from users like you helps shape our future decisions.

    That said, please note that only commercial website are required to sign up for a mandatory commercial Jetpack Stats plan.

    Non-commercial / Personal / Non-profit sites can make a contribution they’re comfortable with and continue using Jetpack Stats.

    If you have a specific support request about your website, please feel free to create a new thread here and we’ll follow up with you.

    Thank you!

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