Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.3.5

Does "Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection" work with WordPress 6.7.1 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: 97.14 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 version6.7.1
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=e849573773
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.395 s
Memory usage 3.6 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 0.237 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 0.173 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 1.628 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.php0.321 s0.254 s-0.067 s3.48 MiB3.59 MiB+ 112.98 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.184 s0.189 s+0.005 s3.54 MiB3.65 MiB+ 109.7 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.715 s0.606 s-0.109 s5.93 MiB6.05 MiB+ 131.45 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.523 s0.293 s-0.230 s3.5 MiB3.59 MiB+ 92.3 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.220 s0.250 s+0.030 s3.47 MiB3.57 MiB+ 96.29 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.256 s0.206 s-0.050 s3.46 MiB3.57 MiB+ 104.48 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.180 s0.188 s+0.008 s3.48 MiB3.59 MiB+ 115.16 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.521 s0.567 s+0.046 s5.92 MiB6.04 MiB+ 126.66 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.270 s0.268 s-0.002 s3.47 MiB3.57 MiB+ 96.36 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.188 s0.546 s+0.358 s3.5 MiB3.59 MiB+ 95.23 KiB
/0.472 s0.181 s-0.291 s3.48 MiB3.47 MiB- 12.02 KiB
Average 0.350 s0.323 s-0.027 s3.93 MiB4.02 MiB+ 97.14 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
PHP62.9%3,91286820
CSS28.4%1,764205
JavaScript8.7%5391013
SVG0.0%303
Total 6,218 989 31

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 3,117
Total complexity 818
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