Akismet Anti-Spam 4.0.3

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 4.9.6 and PHP 7.0.16? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
No PHP errors, warnings or notices
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Looks good! No problems were detected.
Performance

Memory usage: 93.19 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 version4.9.6
PHP version7.0.16
MySQL version5.7.17
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 5,000,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/
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Pages 4

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?activate=true&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s=
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=akismet%2Fakismet.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=549ed2bd15
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200 OK
Load time 0.074 s
Memory usage 3.26 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → Akismet Anti-Spam

Page screenshot: Settings  → Akismet Anti-Spam
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=akismet-key-config
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200 OK
Load time 0.730 s
Memory usage 3.22 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 OK
Load time 0.072 s
Memory usage 2.83 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status 200 OK
Load time 0.102 s
Memory usage 3.14 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.148 s0.108 s-0.040 s3.09 MiB3.16 MiB+ 68.16 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.112 s0.125 s+0.013 s3.12 MiB3.18 MiB+ 62 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.210 s0.184 s-0.026 s3.19 MiB3.25 MiB+ 69.54 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.107 s0.160 s+0.053 s2.96 MiB3.08 MiB+ 125.57 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.088 s0.089 s+0.001 s3.04 MiB3.07 MiB+ 31.2 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.047 s0.083 s+0.036 s2.94 MiB3.06 MiB+ 125.01 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.095 s0.105 s+0.010 s2.98 MiB3.1 MiB+ 125.91 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.111 s0.239 s+0.128 s3.19 MiB3.25 MiB+ 62.28 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.091 s0.078 s-0.013 s2.94 MiB3.07 MiB+ 125.32 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.092 s0.044 s-0.048 s2.98 MiB3.11 MiB+ 130.84 KiB
/0.121 s0.152 s+0.031 s2.73 MiB2.83 MiB+ 99.27 KiB
Average 0.111 s0.124 s+0.013 s3.01 MiB3.11 MiB+ 93.19 KiB

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.

Options wp_options 1

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID Name
akismet_widgetAkismet Widget

Meta Boxes

{
    "comment": {
        "akismet-status": {
            "title": "Comment History",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection Admin Menus and Meta Boxes