Akismet Anti-Spam 4.1.10

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 5.8 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
No PHP errors, warnings or notices
3JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 60.1 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 version5.8
PHP version7.4.8
MySQL version8.0.21
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=fe7818ddec
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.434 s
Memory usage 3.1 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 0.225 s
Memory usage 3.07 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 0.213 s
Memory usage 2.94 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 1.864 s
Memory usage 4.53 MiB
JS errors
[
    {
        "message": "TypeError: Cannot read property 'top' of undefined\n    at belowEntryMetaClass (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:124:33)\n    at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:211:3)\n    at e (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30038)\n    at t (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30340)",
        "trace": null,
        "code": null
    },
    {
        "message": "TypeError: Cannot read property 'top' of undefined\n    at belowEntryMetaClass (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:124:33)\n    at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:211:3)\n    at e (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30038)\n    at t (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30340)",
        "trace": null,
        "code": null
    },
    {
        "message": "TypeError: Cannot read property 'top' of undefined\n    at belowEntryMetaClass (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:124:33)\n    at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:211:3)\n    at e (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30038)\n    at t (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30340)",
        "trace": null,
        "code": null
    }
]
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.320 s0.278 s-0.042 s3.08 MiB3.14 MiB+ 61.87 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.195 s0.219 s+0.024 s3.11 MiB3.23 MiB+ 122.17 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.250 s1.073 s-0.177 s5.27 MiB5.34 MiB+ 78.76 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.584 s0.302 s-0.282 s3.03 MiB3.09 MiB+ 57.77 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.143 s0.147 s+0.004 s3.02 MiB3.06 MiB+ 41.02 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.268 s0.374 s+0.106 s3.01 MiB3.06 MiB+ 57.95 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.225 s0.178 s-0.047 s3.04 MiB3.09 MiB+ 58.12 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.103 s0.680 s-0.423 s5.26 MiB5.33 MiB+ 78.34 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.326 s0.282 s-0.044 s3 MiB3.06 MiB+ 57.52 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.268 s0.241 s-0.027 s3.04 MiB3.1 MiB+ 61.3 KiB
/0.306 s0.262 s-0.044 s2.96 MiB2.94 MiB- 13.74 KiB
Average 0.453 s0.367 s-0.087 s3.44 MiB3.5 MiB+ 60.1 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
CSS
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP77.5%3,08164919
CSS14.7%58331
JavaScript7.9%314552
Total 3,978 707 22

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 2,556
Total complexity 721
Median class complexity 35.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class Akismet
Most complex function Akismet::auto_check_comment()
Classes 5
Methods 125
Functions 62

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