Report - Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.4

Does "Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection" work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-06-10 21:07:08 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: 111.92 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	6.8.1
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-05-07T16:30:00+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=6c9a7f68df
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.428 s
Memory usage	3.63 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	0.246 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	0.210 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	1.588 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	0.345 s	0.321 s	-0.024 s	3.51 MiB	3.62 MiB	+ 120.08 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.208 s	0.191 s	-0.017 s	3.57 MiB	3.68 MiB	+ 115.46 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.839 s	0.662 s	-0.177 s	6.06 MiB	6.24 MiB	+ 183.05 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.773 s	0.508 s	-0.265 s	3.52 MiB	3.62 MiB	+ 98.05 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.227 s	0.192 s	-0.035 s	3.5 MiB	3.6 MiB	+ 102.05 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.277 s	0.237 s	-0.040 s	3.49 MiB	3.6 MiB	+ 110.24 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.198 s	0.355 s	+0.157 s	3.5 MiB	3.62 MiB	+ 120.91 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.619 s	0.617 s	-0.002 s	6.05 MiB	6.22 MiB	+ 178.58 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.299 s	0.286 s	-0.013 s	3.5 MiB	3.6 MiB	+ 102.3 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.242 s	0.708 s	+0.466 s	3.52 MiB	3.62 MiB	+ 101.18 KiB
/	0.323 s	0.197 s	-0.126 s	3.5 MiB	3.5 MiB	- 824 bytes
Average	0.395 s	0.389 s	-0.007 s	3.98 MiB	4.08 MiB	+ 111.92 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	63.2%	4,220	1,062	22
	CSS	28.3%	1,892	26	5
	JavaScript	8.4%	562	101	3
	SVG	0.0%	2	0	2
Total			6,676	1,189	32

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	3,315
Total complexity	842
Median class complexity	40.5
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	Akismet
Most complex function	Akismet::auto_check_comment()

Classes	6
Methods	152
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 5.4