Akismet Anti-Spam 4.1.9

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 5.7.2 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: 65.83 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 version5.7.2
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=167685eabf
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.523 s
Memory usage 2.85 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 0.220 s
Memory usage 2.81 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 2.69 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 0.845 s
Memory usage 2.84 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.271 s0.276 s+0.005 s2.82 MiB2.88 MiB+ 65.84 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.186 s0.195 s+0.009 s2.86 MiB2.92 MiB+ 62.14 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.922 s0.956 s+0.034 s5.02 MiB5.16 MiB+ 138.67 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.462 s0.264 s-0.198 s2.7 MiB2.76 MiB+ 61.74 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.273 s0.146 s-0.127 s2.71 MiB2.74 MiB+ 28.98 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.224 s0.165 s-0.059 s2.67 MiB2.73 MiB+ 61.18 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.190 s0.311 s+0.121 s2.77 MiB2.83 MiB+ 62.09 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.117 s0.958 s-0.159 s5.01 MiB5.14 MiB+ 138.26 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.303 s0.285 s-0.018 s2.67 MiB2.73 MiB+ 61.49 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.226 s0.254 s+0.028 s2.78 MiB2.84 MiB+ 65.27 KiB
/0.260 s0.217 s-0.043 s2.71 MiB2.69 MiB- 21.54 KiB
Average 0.403 s0.366 s-0.037 s3.16 MiB3.22 MiB+ 65.83 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
PHP78.3%3,08564519
CSS14.8%58331
JavaScript6.9%271462
Total 3,939 694 22

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 2,561
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