Akismet Anti-Spam 4.1.3

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 5.3 and PHP 7.2.16? 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: 115.93 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 version5.3
PHP version7.2.16
MySQL version8.0.15
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

Akismet Anti-Spam ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Akismet Anti-Spam ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=akismet-key-config&view=start
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=akismet%2Fakismet.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=8e46217220
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.454 s
Memory usage 3.78 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 0.276 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 0.176 s
Memory usage 3.34 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 1.095 s
Memory usage 3.75 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.317 s0.281 s-0.036 s3.61 MiB3.74 MiB+ 133.06 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.246 s0.319 s+0.073 s3.64 MiB3.77 MiB+ 129.37 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.307 s1.279 s-0.028 s5.35 MiB5.53 MiB+ 184.26 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.471 s0.368 s-0.103 s3.48 MiB3.6 MiB+ 128.97 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.158 s0.141 s-0.017 s3.56 MiB3.6 MiB+ 34.8 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.278 s0.299 s+0.021 s3.46 MiB3.59 MiB+ 128.41 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.240 s0.196 s-0.044 s3.56 MiB3.63 MiB+ 65.31 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.212 s1.295 s+0.083 s5.34 MiB5.52 MiB+ 177.44 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.229 s0.243 s+0.014 s3.46 MiB3.59 MiB+ 128.72 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.299 s0.238 s-0.061 s3.57 MiB3.7 MiB+ 133.15 KiB
/0.327 s0.288 s-0.039 s3.32 MiB3.35 MiB+ 31.73 KiB
Average 0.462 s0.450 s-0.012 s3.85 MiB3.97 MiB+ 115.93 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