Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.3

Does "Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection" work with WordPress 6.4.2 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: 82.39 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 version6.4.2
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=7dcfb2fd5b
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.423 s
Memory usage 3.43 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 0.273 s
Memory usage 3.38 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 0.205 s
Memory usage 3.36 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 2.465 s
Memory usage 5.53 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.416 s0.352 s-0.064 s3.38 MiB3.47 MiB+ 92.63 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.232 s0.241 s+0.009 s3.41 MiB3.49 MiB+ 89.34 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.923 s0.796 s-0.127 s5.46 MiB5.58 MiB+ 129.56 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.599 s0.514 s-0.085 s3.32 MiB3.39 MiB+ 72.66 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.241 s0.198 s-0.043 s3.32 MiB3.38 MiB+ 64.52 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.348 s0.281 s-0.067 s3.29 MiB3.38 MiB+ 84.85 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.211 s0.201 s-0.010 s3.31 MiB3.4 MiB+ 89.29 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.847 s0.561 s-0.286 s5.45 MiB5.57 MiB+ 129.15 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.349 s0.269 s-0.080 s3.3 MiB3.37 MiB+ 72.42 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.272 s0.894 s+0.622 s3.34 MiB3.41 MiB+ 75.09 KiB
/0.302 s0.216 s-0.086 s3.36 MiB3.36 MiB+ 6.77 KiB
Average 0.431 s0.411 s-0.020 s3.72 MiB3.8 MiB+ 82.39 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
PHP60.1%3,49475020
CSS30.7%1,785185
JavaScript9.1%5281003
SVG0.0%202
Total 5,809 868 30

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 2,738
Total complexity 768
Median class complexity 35.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class Akismet
Most complex function Akismet::auto_check_comment()
Classes 5
Methods 134
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