Akismet Anti-Spam 4.2.3

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: 68.94 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 version5.9.3
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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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=82813ce2ab
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.431 s
Memory usage 3.34 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 3.31 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 0.324 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 1.298 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.php0.364 s0.250 s-0.114 s3.37 MiB3.44 MiB+ 71.09 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.180 s0.205 s+0.025 s3.4 MiB3.47 MiB+ 68.13 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.879 s1.067 s+0.188 s5.68 MiB5.77 MiB+ 87.98 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.427 s0.321 s-0.106 s3.25 MiB3.32 MiB+ 74.99 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.285 s0.148 s-0.137 s3.24 MiB3.3 MiB+ 58.84 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.283 s0.204 s-0.079 s3.23 MiB3.3 MiB+ 75.16 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.182 s0.186 s+0.004 s3.27 MiB3.33 MiB+ 68.07 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.639 s0.672 s+0.033 s5.68 MiB5.76 MiB+ 83.56 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.232 s0.347 s+0.115 s3.22 MiB3.3 MiB+ 75.48 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.212 s0.267 s+0.055 s3.27 MiB3.37 MiB+ 99.34 KiB
/0.274 s0.267 s-0.007 s3.4 MiB3.39 MiB- 4.3 KiB
Average 0.360 s0.358 s-0.002 s3.73 MiB3.79 MiB+ 68.94 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%3,32168619
CSS14.8%62931
JavaScript6.8%290551
Total 4,240 744 21

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 2,668
Total complexity 738
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