How to use NetSpeed with LXDE?

I am using Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS with LXDE because I prefer minimalism and functionality. GNOME 3 is unacceptably heavy on system resources. MATE (based on GNOME 2) is much better, but still too heavy. There is a GNOME applet called "NetSpeed" that I really like. It displays real time download and upload speed number (as in picture) on MATE panel and it works perfectly with MATE, but not with lxpanel on LXDE. Please let me know how to make it work with LXDE. Thank you.

Summary:

1. It must display the speed as number in KiB/s or B/s - not as a graph.
2. It must display the speed inside the lxpanel - not on a desktop.

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You can install indicator-multiload by

sudo apt-get install indicator-multiload

then configure it to show only network graph and use inside LXPanel.

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Other lightweight alternatives may be Conky or GNU Krell Monitors.

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Have you considered XFCE? It's not as light as LXDE, but it is lighter than MATE. Network Monitor is customizable, and is always visible in the XFCE panel. I have it installed on my 2011 netbook, and with just few adjustments, to the panel configuration, it looks just like MATE.

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