Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.3.7

Does "Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection" work with WordPress 6.8.1 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: 112.56 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 version6.8.1
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=d5d4ba603b
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.420 s
Memory usage 3.63 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 0.250 s
Memory usage 3.6 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 0.183 s
Memory usage 3.49 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 1.550 s
Memory usage 5.94 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.363 s0.326 s-0.037 s3.51 MiB3.62 MiB+ 113.75 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.212 s0.190 s-0.022 s3.57 MiB3.68 MiB+ 110.12 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.835 s0.653 s-0.182 s6.06 MiB6.23 MiB+ 177.71 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.786 s0.459 s-0.327 s3.52 MiB3.61 MiB+ 92.71 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.235 s0.186 s-0.049 s3.5 MiB3.6 MiB+ 96.7 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.281 s0.247 s-0.034 s3.49 MiB3.59 MiB+ 104.9 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.206 s0.196 s-0.010 s3.5 MiB3.62 MiB+ 115.57 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.729 s0.629 s-0.100 s6.05 MiB6.22 MiB+ 173.23 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.461 s0.258 s-0.203 s3.5 MiB3.6 MiB+ 96.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.266 s0.688 s+0.422 s3.52 MiB3.62 MiB+ 95.65 KiB
/0.316 s0.173 s-0.143 s3.43 MiB3.49 MiB+ 61.05 KiB
Average 0.426 s0.364 s-0.062 s3.97 MiB4.08 MiB+ 112.56 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
PHP63.2%3,96090920
CSS28.2%1,764205
JavaScript8.6%5391013
SVG0.0%303
Total 6,266 1,030 31

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 3,172
Total complexity 811
Median class complexity 52.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class Akismet
Most complex function Akismet::auto_check_comment()
Classes 5
Methods 140
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