Varnish Caching 1.8.3

Does Varnish Caching work with WordPress 6.5.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1PHP warnings
3PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 57.45 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 version6.5.2
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 1,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/vcaching/
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Pages 6

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=vcaching%2Fvcaching.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=ab0f8010c8
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.309 s
Memory usage 3.44 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Varnish Caching

Page screenshot: Varnish Caching
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcaching-plugin
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.175 s
Memory usage 3.4 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Varnish Caching → Console

Page screenshot: Varnish Caching → Console
URL /wp-admin/index.php?page=vcaching-plugin&tab=console
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.155 s
Memory usage 3.4 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Varnish Caching → Statistics

Page screenshot: Varnish Caching → Statistics
URL /wp-admin/index.php?page=vcaching-plugin&tab=stats
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.175 s
Memory usage 3.4 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Varnish Caching → VCLs Generator

Page screenshot: Varnish Caching → VCLs Generator
URL /wp-admin/index.php?page=vcaching-plugin&tab=conf
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.167 s
Memory usage 3.4 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 0.202 s
Memory usage 3.43 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.389 s0.349 s-0.040 s3.44 MiB3.5 MiB+ 62.88 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.241 s0.223 s-0.018 s3.46 MiB3.59 MiB+ 127.42 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.972 s0.855 s-0.117 s5.59 MiB5.66 MiB+ 67.27 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.667 s0.491 s-0.176 s3.38 MiB3.42 MiB+ 45.84 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.249 s0.210 s-0.039 s3.37 MiB3.41 MiB+ 37.77 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.310 s0.269 s-0.041 s3.35 MiB3.41 MiB+ 58.05 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.218 s0.207 s-0.011 s3.37 MiB3.43 MiB+ 63.26 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.615 s0.622 s+0.007 s5.59 MiB5.65 MiB+ 62.89 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.402 s0.286 s-0.116 s3.36 MiB3.4 MiB+ 46.3 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.280 s0.225 s-0.055 s3.39 MiB3.44 MiB+ 45.9 KiB
/0.338 s0.211 s-0.127 s3.42 MiB3.43 MiB+ 14.37 KiB
Average 0.426 s0.359 s-0.067 s3.79 MiB3.85 MiB+ 57.45 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.

PHP
PO File
reStructuredText
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP77.5%976523
PO File13.7%172812
reStructuredText8.9%11201
Total 1,260 133 6

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 963
Total complexity 202
Median class complexity 101.0
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class VCaching
Most complex function VCaching::init()
Classes 2
Methods 54
Functions 0

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.

No new entries found.

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[12-Apr-2024 09:12:42 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 36
[12-Apr-2024 09:12:43 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 36
[12-Apr-2024 09:12:43 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "info" in /wp-content/plugins/vcaching/vcaching.php on line 618
[12-Apr-2024 09:12:43 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 36
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide the "Varnish Caching" Admin Menu