Akismet Anti-Spam 4.2.2

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 5.9.3 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: 66.36 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.049 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.9.3
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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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=acc9eb9a42
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.426 s
Memory usage 3.33 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 0.214 s
Memory usage 3.3 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 0.308 s
Memory usage 3.39 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 1.432 s
Memory usage 5.26 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.363 s0.391 s+0.028 s3.37 MiB3.44 MiB+ 68.51 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.189 s0.195 s+0.006 s3.4 MiB3.46 MiB+ 65.55 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.840 s1.398 s+0.558 s5.65 MiB5.74 MiB+ 85.4 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.345 s0.360 s+0.015 s3.25 MiB3.32 MiB+ 72.41 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.233 s0.139 s-0.094 s3.24 MiB3.3 MiB+ 56.27 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.282 s0.196 s-0.086 s3.23 MiB3.3 MiB+ 72.59 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.183 s0.177 s-0.006 s3.27 MiB3.33 MiB+ 65.49 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.745 s0.736 s-0.009 s5.65 MiB5.73 MiB+ 80.98 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.218 s0.337 s+0.119 s3.22 MiB3.29 MiB+ 72.9 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.214 s0.262 s+0.048 s3.27 MiB3.36 MiB+ 96.76 KiB
/0.280 s0.242 s-0.038 s3.4 MiB3.39 MiB- 6.88 KiB
Average 0.354 s0.403 s+0.049 s3.72 MiB3.79 MiB+ 66.36 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%3,31468319
CSS14.9%62931
JavaScript6.9%290551
Total 4,233 741 21

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 2,663
Total complexity 737
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