Akismet Anti-Spam 4.1.1

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 5.2 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: 96.37 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 version5.2
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?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=5d1067785f
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.383 s
Memory usage 3.63 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
Load time 0.866 s
Memory usage 3.63 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 0.362 s
Memory usage 3.2 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
Load time 1.136 s
Memory usage 3.54 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.503 s0.364 s-0.139 s3.47 MiB3.6 MiB+ 135.76 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.358 s0.386 s+0.028 s3.5 MiB3.63 MiB+ 129.53 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.502 s2.640 s+1.138 s5.26 MiB5.37 MiB+ 112.84 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.616 s0.540 s-0.076 s3.33 MiB3.46 MiB+ 129.1 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.271 s0.204 s-0.067 s3.42 MiB3.45 MiB+ 35.15 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.279 s0.312 s+0.033 s3.31 MiB3.44 MiB+ 128.54 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.356 s0.242 s-0.114 s3.42 MiB3.48 MiB+ 65.45 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page2.272 s1.299 s-0.973 s5.24 MiB5.35 MiB+ 109.59 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.509 s0.381 s-0.128 s3.32 MiB3.44 MiB+ 128.85 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.436 s0.318 s-0.118 s3.42 MiB3.55 MiB+ 133.22 KiB
/0.674 s0.450 s-0.224 s3.25 MiB3.2 MiB- 47.97 KiB
Average 0.707 s0.649 s-0.058 s3.72 MiB3.82 MiB+ 96.37 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