Akismet Anti-Spam 4.1.7

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 5.6 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: 63.65 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 version5.6
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=1f6bf1f2e5
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.475 s
Memory usage 2.77 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 0.231 s
Memory usage 2.77 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 0.164 s
Memory usage 2.64 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 0.905 s
Memory usage 2.8 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.275 s0.270 s-0.005 s2.78 MiB2.84 MiB+ 65.84 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.184 s0.198 s+0.014 s2.82 MiB2.88 MiB+ 62.14 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.929 s0.781 s-0.148 s4.92 MiB5.06 MiB+ 138.67 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.483 s0.439 s-0.044 s2.65 MiB2.71 MiB+ 57.74 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.156 s0.176 s+0.020 s2.67 MiB2.69 MiB+ 24.98 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.309 s0.168 s-0.141 s2.63 MiB2.69 MiB+ 57.18 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.222 s0.196 s-0.026 s2.67 MiB2.72 MiB+ 58.09 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.211 s0.653 s-0.558 s4.91 MiB5.04 MiB+ 134.26 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.348 s0.227 s-0.121 s2.63 MiB2.69 MiB+ 57.49 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.230 s0.238 s+0.008 s2.73 MiB2.79 MiB+ 61.27 KiB
/0.312 s0.235 s-0.077 s2.66 MiB2.64 MiB- 17.54 KiB
Average 0.424 s0.326 s-0.098 s3.1 MiB3.16 MiB+ 63.65 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