Report - Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.5

Does "Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection" work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-07-30 21:39:06 UTC.

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: 122.3 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 version	6.8.2
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-07-15T18:17:00+00:00
Active installs	6,000,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 4

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=9ca032873c
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.473 s
Memory usage	3.64 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → Akismet Anti-spam

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=akismet-key-config
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.242 s
Memory usage	3.61 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.177 s
Memory usage	3.5 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect	new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.312 s
Memory usage	5.95 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.355 s	0.305 s	-0.050 s	3.51 MiB	3.63 MiB	+ 124.44 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.198 s	0.200 s	+0.002 s	3.57 MiB	3.69 MiB	+ 119.82 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.772 s	0.651 s	-0.121 s	6.06 MiB	6.24 MiB	+ 187.42 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.584 s	0.483 s	-0.101 s	3.52 MiB	3.62 MiB	+ 102.41 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.227 s	0.196 s	-0.031 s	3.5 MiB	3.61 MiB	+ 106.41 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.291 s	0.244 s	-0.047 s	3.49 MiB	3.6 MiB	+ 114.6 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.244 s	0.197 s	-0.047 s	3.5 MiB	3.63 MiB	+ 125.27 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.601 s	0.588 s	-0.013 s	6.05 MiB	6.23 MiB	+ 182.94 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.434 s	0.439 s	+0.005 s	3.5 MiB	3.61 MiB	+ 106.66 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.424 s	0.361 s	-0.063 s	3.52 MiB	3.63 MiB	+ 105.54 KiB
/	0.297 s	0.194 s	-0.103 s	3.43 MiB	3.5 MiB	+ 69.84 KiB
Average	0.402 s	0.351 s	-0.052 s	3.97 MiB	4.09 MiB	+ 122.3 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
	PHP	63.9%	4,343	1,125	22
	CSS	27.8%	1,894	26	5
	JavaScript	8.3%	562	101	3
	SVG	0.0%	2	0	2
Total			6,801	1,252	32

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	3,439
Total complexity	859
Median class complexity	42.5
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	Akismet
Most complex function	Akismet::auto_check_comment()

Classes	6
Methods	155
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

widget_akismet_widget

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID	Name
akismet_widget	Akismet Widget

Meta Boxes

{
    "comment": {
        "akismet-status": {
            "title": "Comment History",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.5