Report - 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 2025-04-30 17:46:20 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: 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 version	6.8.1
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	about a month ago
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=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

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

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

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
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.363 s	0.326 s	-0.037 s	3.51 MiB	3.62 MiB	+ 113.75 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.212 s	0.190 s	-0.022 s	3.57 MiB	3.68 MiB	+ 110.12 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.835 s	0.653 s	-0.182 s	6.06 MiB	6.23 MiB	+ 177.71 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.786 s	0.459 s	-0.327 s	3.52 MiB	3.61 MiB	+ 92.71 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.235 s	0.186 s	-0.049 s	3.5 MiB	3.6 MiB	+ 96.7 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.281 s	0.247 s	-0.034 s	3.49 MiB	3.59 MiB	+ 104.9 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.206 s	0.196 s	-0.010 s	3.5 MiB	3.62 MiB	+ 115.57 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.729 s	0.629 s	-0.100 s	6.05 MiB	6.22 MiB	+ 173.23 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.461 s	0.258 s	-0.203 s	3.5 MiB	3.6 MiB	+ 96.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.266 s	0.688 s	+0.422 s	3.52 MiB	3.62 MiB	+ 95.65 KiB
/	0.316 s	0.173 s	-0.143 s	3.43 MiB	3.49 MiB	+ 61.05 KiB
Average	0.426 s	0.364 s	-0.062 s	3.97 MiB	4.08 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
	PHP	63.2%	3,960	909	20
	CSS	28.2%	1,764	20	5
	JavaScript	8.6%	539	101	3
	SVG	0.0%	3	0	3
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

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 5.3.7