Akismet Anti-Spam: Spam Protection 5.2

Does "Akismet Anti-Spam: Spam Protection" work with WordPress 6.3.1 and PHP 8.1.12? 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: 67.41 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 version6.3.1
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
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=44e770e3f9
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.471 s
Memory usage 2.86 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 0.243 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 0.159 s
Memory usage 3.11 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 2.285 s
Memory usage 5.27 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.353 s0.319 s-0.034 s2.82 MiB2.9 MiB+ 73.72 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.203 s0.196 s-0.007 s2.85 MiB2.92 MiB+ 69.66 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.758 s0.595 s-0.163 s5.21 MiB5.32 MiB+ 110.25 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.620 s0.459 s-0.161 s2.77 MiB2.82 MiB+ 52.98 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.229 s0.199 s-0.030 s2.76 MiB2.8 MiB+ 44.21 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.390 s0.250 s-0.140 s2.74 MiB2.8 MiB+ 65.17 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.191 s0.198 s+0.007 s2.76 MiB2.82 MiB+ 69.61 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.595 s0.614 s+0.019 s5.21 MiB5.31 MiB+ 105.84 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.230 s0.227 s-0.003 s2.75 MiB2.8 MiB+ 52.74 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.421 s0.702 s+0.281 s2.78 MiB2.83 MiB+ 56.41 KiB
/0.282 s0.203 s-0.079 s3.13 MiB3.17 MiB+ 40.88 KiB
Average 0.388 s0.360 s-0.028 s3.25 MiB3.32 MiB+ 67.41 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
JavaScript
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP70.3%3,41471720
CSS18.5%89963
JavaScript11.1%5381013
SVG0.0%202
Total 4,853 824 28

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 2,725
Total complexity 761
Median class complexity 35.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class Akismet
Most complex function Akismet::auto_check_comment()
Classes 5
Methods 133
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