Report - ALTCHA Spam Protection 1.23.0

Does ALTCHA Spam Protection work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-07-17 21:53:53 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: 132.28 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	6.8.2
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-08-19T08:11:00+00:00
Active installs	3,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/altcha-spam-protection/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 3

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=altcha-spam-protection%2Faltcha.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=1a376d879f
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.466 s
Memory usage	3.66 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → ALTCHA Anti-spam

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=altcha_admin
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.219 s
Memory usage	3.65 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.208 s
Memory usage	3.5 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.348 s	0.273 s	-0.075 s	3.51 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 141.92 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.193 s	0.188 s	-0.005 s	3.57 MiB	3.71 MiB	+ 143.43 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.677 s	0.560 s	-0.117 s	6.06 MiB	6.22 MiB	+ 157.17 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.603 s	0.443 s	-0.160 s	3.52 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 126.02 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.180 s	0.167 s	-0.013 s	3.5 MiB	3.63 MiB	+ 130.02 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.259 s	0.345 s	+0.086 s	3.49 MiB	3.63 MiB	+ 138.21 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.179 s	0.209 s	+0.030 s	3.5 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 148.88 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.546 s	0.544 s	-0.002 s	6.05 MiB	6.2 MiB	+ 152.7 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.389 s	0.246 s	-0.143 s	3.5 MiB	3.63 MiB	+ 126.52 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.197 s	0.179 s	-0.018 s	3.52 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 126.02 KiB
/	0.274 s	0.174 s	-0.100 s	3.43 MiB	3.5 MiB	+ 64.18 KiB
Average	0.350 s	0.303 s	-0.047 s	3.97 MiB	4.1 MiB	+ 132.28 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.

PO File

PHP

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PO File	70.6%	6,264	3,857	29
	PHP	28.3%	2,509	47	25
	JavaScript	0.6%	50	9	4
	CSS	0.5%	44	0	2
Total			8,867	3,913	60

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	2,274
Total complexity	235
Median class complexity	21.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	AltchaPlugin
Most complex function	altcha_settings_init()

Classes	5
Methods	68
Functions	25

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` 8

altcha_api
altcha_api_custom_url
altcha_api_key
altcha_expires
altcha_hidefooter
altcha_integration_custom
altcha_secret
altcha_send_ip

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

ALTCHA Spam Protection 1.23.0