Burst Statistics - Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress 2.0.9

Does "Burst Statistics - Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress" work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1Unrecognized messages in the PHP error log
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 170.53 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version6.8.1
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 300,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/burst-statistics/
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Pages 4

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=burst-statistics%2Fburst.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=13837278ae
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.565 s
Memory usage 4.12 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics

Page screenshot: Statistics
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=burst
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.248 s
Memory usage 3.68 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.213 s
Memory usage 3.47 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/index.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.372 s
Memory usage 3.7 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.345 s0.491 s+0.146 s3.51 MiB3.7 MiB+ 201.94 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.209 s0.277 s+0.068 s3.57 MiB3.73 MiB+ 165.62 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.879 s0.796 s-0.083 s6.06 MiB6.39 MiB+ 336.37 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.769 s0.515 s-0.254 s3.52 MiB3.67 MiB+ 149.09 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.226 s0.252 s+0.026 s3.5 MiB3.65 MiB+ 152.46 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.297 s0.256 s-0.041 s3.49 MiB3.65 MiB+ 160.66 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.221 s0.182 s-0.039 s3.5 MiB3.67 MiB+ 171.33 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.795 s0.636 s-0.159 s6.05 MiB6.31 MiB+ 268.21 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.302 s0.479 s+0.177 s3.5 MiB3.65 MiB+ 148.96 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.470 s0.220 s-0.250 s3.52 MiB3.67 MiB+ 148.46 KiB
/0.313 s0.226 s-0.087 s3.5 MiB3.47 MiB- 27.28 KiB
Average 0.439 s0.394 s-0.045 s3.98 MiB4.14 MiB+ 170.53 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

JavaScript
PHP
CSS
Sass
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
JavaScript39.9%17,3311,676236
PHP28.8%12,5173,29672
CSS11.2%4,8401818
Sass10.4%4,5327558
JSX4.7%2,04722831
TypeScript2.8%1,23018016
HTML1.5%6606311
LESS0.4%15201
SVG0.1%3814
JSON0.1%2401
Markdown0.0%1602
Total 43,387 5,700 440

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 11,681
Total complexity 2,117
Median class complexity 21.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class Burst\Admin\App\App
Most complex function parse_user_agent()
Classes 35
Methods 323
Functions 60

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Database Tables 9

Options wp_options 8

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "dashboard_widget_burst": {
            "title": "Burst Statistics",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

Capabilities 2

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[17-Jun-2025 07:28:57 UTC] Burst Statistics 2.0.9: Upgrading database tables for Burst Statistics
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Burst Statistics - Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress Admin Menus and Widgets