Jetpack Alternatives: Modern Replacements

Use Plausible ($9/mo, privacy-friendly), Fathom ($14/mo), or PostHog (free up to 1M events). All ship lighter scripts than Jetpack and provide better dashboards.

Vercel and Netlify include global CDN out of the box. For images specifically, Next.js Image component handles optimization and responsive sizing — replacing Jetpack's Photon CDN with better quality.

Build it from your CMS data with simple TypeScript: filter by tag, exclude current post, sort by published date or popularity. Or use Algolia's "similar items" API for AI-driven recommendations.

Simple anchor tags pointing to share URLs (Twitter intent, LinkedIn share, Reddit submit) work without JavaScript. For a richer experience, use Vercel's `react-share` or just write the buttons inline — they're 5 lines of JSX.

Next.js and Astro do everything Jetpack Boost claims to do — critical CSS inlining, image lazy-loading, deferred non-critical JS — but as defaults rather than plugin features. You don't configure them.

Your content lives in Git (or your headless CMS) — that's your backup. For media, S3/R2/Cloudinary include versioning. There's nothing to schedule, monitor, or test-restore for a static site.