Akismet Anti-Spam 4.0

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 4.8.3 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: 96.64 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 version4.8.3
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=3636279331
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200 OK
Load time 0.060 s
Memory usage 2.92 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → Akismet

Page screenshot: Settings → Akismet
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=akismet-key-config
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200 OK
Load time 0.700 s
Memory usage 2.95 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 0.086 s
Memory usage 2.7 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 0.070 s
Memory usage 2.94 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.131 s0.035 s-0.096 s2.9 MiB3.03 MiB+ 129.09 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.092 s0.090 s-0.002 s2.92 MiB3.05 MiB+ 134.16 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.155 s0.063 s-0.092 s2.99 MiB3.12 MiB+ 132.97 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.086 s0.098 s+0.012 s2.82 MiB2.89 MiB+ 62.08 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.068 s0.066 s-0.002 s2.82 MiB2.88 MiB+ 62.08 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.047 s0.059 s+0.012 s2.81 MiB2.87 MiB+ 62.08 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.079 s0.075 s-0.004 s2.85 MiB2.91 MiB+ 62.08 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.148 s0.154 s+0.006 s2.98 MiB3.1 MiB+ 125.71 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.070 s0.068 s-0.002 s2.81 MiB2.87 MiB+ 62.08 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.083 s0.098 s+0.015 s2.85 MiB2.98 MiB+ 131.37 KiB
/0.099 s0.065 s-0.034 s2.61 MiB2.7 MiB+ 99.32 KiB
Average 0.096 s0.079 s-0.017 s2.85 MiB2.95 MiB+ 96.64 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": "Comment History"
    }
}

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