Akismet Anti-Spam 4.1.11

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
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Looks good! No problems were detected.
Performance

Memory usage: 64.45 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 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=a3ab4adaa7
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.383 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 0.214 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 0.178 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 1.816 s
Memory usage 4.53 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.296 s0.231 s-0.065 s3.08 MiB3.14 MiB+ 61.88 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.181 s0.185 s+0.004 s3.11 MiB3.23 MiB+ 122.19 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.903 s0.936 s+0.033 s5.27 MiB5.34 MiB+ 78.77 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.777 s0.550 s-0.227 s3.03 MiB3.09 MiB+ 57.79 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.176 s0.131 s-0.045 s3.02 MiB3.06 MiB+ 41.03 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.261 s0.177 s-0.084 s3.01 MiB3.06 MiB+ 57.96 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.177 s0.169 s-0.008 s3.04 MiB3.09 MiB+ 58.13 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.945 s0.640 s-0.305 s5.26 MiB5.33 MiB+ 78.36 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.229 s0.248 s+0.019 s3 MiB3.06 MiB+ 57.54 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.196 s0.296 s+0.100 s3.04 MiB3.1 MiB+ 61.32 KiB
/0.321 s0.260 s-0.061 s2.91 MiB2.94 MiB+ 33.94 KiB
Average 0.406 s0.348 s-0.058 s3.43 MiB3.5 MiB+ 64.45 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
CSS
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP77.1%3,17964919
CSS15.3%63231
JavaScript7.6%314552
Total 4,125 707 22

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 2,599
Total complexity 727
Median class complexity 35.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class Akismet
Most complex function Akismet::auto_check_comment()
Classes 5
Methods 127
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