1. Home
2. Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
3. 5.6 (latest)

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.6

Does "Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection" work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-12-02 20:48:53 UTC.

Summary

Pages 4

Akismet Anti-spam ‹ Test site — WordPress

Settings → Akismet Anti-spam

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.987 s	0.616 s	-0.371 s	3.78 MiB	3.9 MiB	+ 122.55 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.467 s	0.340 s	-0.127 s	3.78 MiB	3.9 MiB	+ 115.73 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.157 s	1.228 s	+0.071 s	6.31 MiB	6.5 MiB	+ 200.89 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.516 s	0.646 s	+0.130 s	3.73 MiB	3.84 MiB	+ 103.53 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.333 s	0.326 s	-0.007 s	3.71 MiB	3.81 MiB	+ 107.52 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.494 s	0.306 s	-0.188 s	3.7 MiB	3.81 MiB	+ 115.72 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.339 s	0.561 s	+0.222 s	3.71 MiB	3.84 MiB	+ 126.39 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.326 s	0.775 s	-0.551 s	6.29 MiB	6.49 MiB	+ 198.02 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.499 s	0.601 s	+0.102 s	3.71 MiB	3.82 MiB	+ 107.46 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.333 s	0.446 s	+0.113 s	3.73 MiB	3.84 MiB	+ 106.97 KiB
/	0.335 s	0.245 s	-0.090 s	4.1 MiB	4.17 MiB	+ 69.7 KiB
Average	0.617 s	0.554 s	-0.063 s	4.23 MiB	4.35 MiB	+ 124.95 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.

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	63.2%	4,469	1,156	22
	CSS	29.0%	2,048	28	5
	JavaScript	7.8%	548	95	3
	SVG	0.0%	2	0	2
Total			7,067	1,279	32

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

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 4 lines

[02-Dec-2025 20:49:23 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 20:49:23 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 20:49:34 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 20:49:34 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131

---