Report - Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.5

Does "Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection" work with WordPress 6.8.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-09-30 19:43:58 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: 116.87 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	6.8.3
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=a1536dfe48
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.433 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	0.254 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	0.180 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	1.388 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	0.399 s	0.308 s	-0.091 s	3.51 MiB	3.63 MiB	+ 125.12 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.209 s	0.203 s	-0.006 s	3.57 MiB	3.69 MiB	+ 120.5 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.842 s	0.647 s	-0.195 s	6.06 MiB	6.24 MiB	+ 188.09 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.792 s	0.561 s	-0.231 s	3.52 MiB	3.62 MiB	+ 103.09 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.232 s	0.218 s	-0.014 s	3.5 MiB	3.61 MiB	+ 107.09 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.293 s	0.235 s	-0.058 s	3.49 MiB	3.6 MiB	+ 115.28 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.197 s	0.201 s	+0.004 s	3.5 MiB	3.63 MiB	+ 125.95 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.757 s	0.574 s	-0.183 s	6.05 MiB	6.23 MiB	+ 183.62 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.273 s	0.362 s	+0.089 s	3.5 MiB	3.61 MiB	+ 107.34 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.452 s	0.721 s	+0.269 s	3.52 MiB	3.63 MiB	+ 106.22 KiB
/	0.317 s	0.424 s	+0.107 s	3.5 MiB	3.5 MiB	+ 3.31 KiB
Average	0.433 s	0.405 s	-0.028 s	3.98 MiB	4.09 MiB	+ 116.87 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