Akismet Anti-Spam 4.2

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 5.8.1 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: 69.42 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 version5.8.1
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=b526116dd1
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.730 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 0.225 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 0.215 s
Memory usage 2.95 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 3.118 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.php0.316 s0.287 s-0.029 s3.08 MiB3.15 MiB+ 73.93 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.188 s0.222 s+0.034 s3.11 MiB3.24 MiB+ 126.97 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.917 s1.042 s+0.125 s5.27 MiB5.35 MiB+ 82.82 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.526 s0.287 s-0.239 s3.03 MiB3.09 MiB+ 61.84 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.259 s0.151 s-0.108 s3.02 MiB3.07 MiB+ 45.81 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.363 s0.198 s-0.165 s3.01 MiB3.07 MiB+ 62.01 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.179 s0.179 s+0.000 s3.04 MiB3.1 MiB+ 62.91 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.730 s0.866 s+0.136 s5.26 MiB5.34 MiB+ 82.41 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.254 s0.293 s+0.039 s3 MiB3.06 MiB+ 62.32 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.250 s0.256 s+0.006 s3.04 MiB3.11 MiB+ 64.63 KiB
/0.321 s0.264 s-0.057 s2.91 MiB2.95 MiB+ 37.98 KiB
Average 0.391 s0.368 s-0.023 s3.43 MiB3.5 MiB+ 69.42 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%3,29566719
CSS14.9%62931
JavaScript6.9%290551
Total 4,214 725 21

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 2,644
Total complexity 732
Median class complexity 35.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class Akismet
Most complex function Akismet::auto_check_comment()
Classes 5
Methods 131
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