Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.3.2

Does "Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection" work with WordPress 6.5.5 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: 96.85 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.029 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.5.5
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 6,000,000+
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=98970151f7
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.435 s
Memory usage 3.51 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 0.261 s
Memory usage 3.46 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 0.194 s
Memory usage 3.42 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 2.310 s
Memory usage 5.68 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.362 s0.374 s+0.012 s3.44 MiB3.55 MiB+ 112.75 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.214 s0.251 s+0.037 s3.46 MiB3.57 MiB+ 109.45 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.963 s0.673 s-0.290 s5.59 MiB5.72 MiB+ 130.86 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.597 s0.540 s-0.057 s3.38 MiB3.47 MiB+ 92.78 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.251 s0.198 s-0.053 s3.37 MiB3.45 MiB+ 84.01 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.387 s0.268 s-0.119 s3.35 MiB3.45 MiB+ 104.97 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.207 s0.218 s+0.011 s3.37 MiB3.48 MiB+ 109.41 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.567 s0.620 s+0.053 s5.59 MiB5.71 MiB+ 126.45 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.328 s0.305 s-0.023 s3.36 MiB3.45 MiB+ 92.54 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.256 s1.081 s+0.825 s3.39 MiB3.48 MiB+ 95.23 KiB
/0.325 s0.243 s-0.082 s3.42 MiB3.42 MiB+ 6.89 KiB
Average 0.405 s0.434 s+0.029 s3.79 MiB3.89 MiB+ 96.85 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
PHP61.0%3,69084420
CSS30.0%1,817185
JavaScript8.9%5391013
SVG0.0%303
Total 6,049 963 31

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 2,925
Total complexity 802
Median class complexity 52.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class Akismet
Most complex function Akismet::auto_check_comment()
Classes 5
Methods 137
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