Akismet Anti-Spam 4.1.4

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 5.4 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: 108.02 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 version5.4
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=1557ec70e5
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.477 s
Memory usage 3.8 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 0.229 s
Memory usage 3.7 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 0.240 s
Memory usage 3.36 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 0.631 s
Memory usage 3.78 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.271 s0.230 s-0.041 s3.64 MiB3.78 MiB+ 141.06 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.204 s0.194 s-0.010 s3.66 MiB3.79 MiB+ 129.37 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.092 s1.462 s+0.370 s5.43 MiB5.61 MiB+ 187.93 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.472 s0.361 s-0.111 s3.5 MiB3.63 MiB+ 128.97 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.158 s0.166 s+0.008 s3.58 MiB3.61 MiB+ 34.8 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.191 s0.173 s-0.018 s3.48 MiB3.6 MiB+ 128.41 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.435 s0.155 s-0.280 s3.58 MiB3.65 MiB+ 65.31 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.958 s0.964 s+0.006 s5.42 MiB5.59 MiB+ 181.11 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.363 s0.195 s-0.168 s3.48 MiB3.61 MiB+ 128.72 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.260 s0.202 s-0.058 s3.59 MiB3.72 MiB+ 132.5 KiB
/0.309 s0.199 s-0.110 s3.43 MiB3.36 MiB- 69.99 KiB
Average 0.428 s0.391 s-0.037 s3.89 MiB4 MiB+ 108.02 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