Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.3.3

Does "Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection" work with WordPress 6.7 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: 97.61 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 version6.7
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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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=2d9be7a498
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.351 s
Memory usage 3.59 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 0.208 s
Memory usage 3.57 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 0.171 s
Memory usage 3.47 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 1.493 s
Memory usage 5.9 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.314 s0.269 s-0.045 s3.48 MiB3.59 MiB+ 113.43 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.184 s0.171 s-0.013 s3.54 MiB3.65 MiB+ 110.16 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.742 s0.543 s-0.199 s5.92 MiB6.05 MiB+ 131.91 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.481 s0.293 s-0.188 s3.49 MiB3.58 MiB+ 92.76 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.175 s0.153 s-0.022 s3.47 MiB3.56 MiB+ 96.75 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.224 s0.349 s+0.125 s3.46 MiB3.56 MiB+ 104.95 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.157 s0.216 s+0.059 s3.47 MiB3.59 MiB+ 115.62 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.526 s0.529 s+0.003 s5.92 MiB6.04 MiB+ 127.13 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.260 s0.201 s-0.059 s3.47 MiB3.56 MiB+ 93.25 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.210 s0.687 s+0.477 s3.49 MiB3.58 MiB+ 94.77 KiB
/0.265 s0.167 s-0.098 s3.47 MiB3.47 MiB- 7.04 KiB
Average 0.322 s0.325 s+0.004 s3.93 MiB4.02 MiB+ 97.61 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
PHP61.3%3,74081920
CSS29.8%1,817185
JavaScript8.8%5391013
SVG0.0%303
Total 6,099 938 31

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 2,966
Total complexity 816
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