Akismet Anti-Spam 4.1.8

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 5.6.2 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: 63.26 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.026 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.6.2
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=b91b4cc1ab
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.670 s
Memory usage 2.78 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 0.345 s
Memory usage 2.78 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 0.370 s
Memory usage 2.65 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 1.532 s
Memory usage 2.81 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.698 s0.480 s-0.218 s2.79 MiB2.86 MiB+ 65.84 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.326 s0.386 s+0.060 s2.84 MiB2.9 MiB+ 62.14 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.164 s1.619 s+0.455 s4.93 MiB5.07 MiB+ 138.67 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.470 s0.749 s+0.279 s2.67 MiB2.72 MiB+ 57.74 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.256 s0.292 s+0.036 s2.68 MiB2.71 MiB+ 24.98 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.264 s0.373 s+0.109 s2.64 MiB2.7 MiB+ 57.18 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.247 s0.328 s+0.081 s2.68 MiB2.74 MiB+ 58.09 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.438 s1.017 s-0.421 s4.92 MiB5.05 MiB+ 130.26 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.426 s0.343 s-0.083 s2.65 MiB2.7 MiB+ 57.49 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.282 s0.394 s+0.112 s2.75 MiB2.81 MiB+ 61.27 KiB
/0.498 s0.370 s-0.128 s2.67 MiB2.65 MiB- 17.79 KiB
Average 0.552 s0.577 s+0.026 s3.11 MiB3.17 MiB+ 63.26 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
PHP78.2%3,05858419
CSS14.9%58331
JavaScript6.9%271462
Total 3,912 633 22

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 2,534
Total complexity 715
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