Report - ALTCHA Spam Protection 1.24.0

Does ALTCHA Spam Protection work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-08-07 10:02:40 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: 126.85 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=a41e6344e0
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.340 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	0.248 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	0.221 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	0.346 s	0.297 s	-0.049 s	3.51 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 142.6 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.223 s	0.216 s	-0.007 s	3.57 MiB	3.71 MiB	+ 144.11 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.901 s	0.642 s	-0.259 s	6.06 MiB	6.22 MiB	+ 157.84 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.885 s	0.341 s	-0.544 s	3.52 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 126.7 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.231 s	0.186 s	-0.045 s	3.5 MiB	3.63 MiB	+ 130.7 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.310 s	0.261 s	-0.049 s	3.49 MiB	3.63 MiB	+ 138.89 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.198 s	0.354 s	+0.156 s	3.5 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 149.56 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.775 s	0.718 s	-0.057 s	6.05 MiB	6.2 MiB	+ 153.38 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.319 s	0.318 s	-0.001 s	3.5 MiB	3.63 MiB	+ 127.2 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.228 s	0.210 s	-0.018 s	3.52 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 126.7 KiB
/	0.317 s	0.201 s	-0.116 s	3.5 MiB	3.5 MiB	- 2.34 KiB
Average	0.430 s	0.340 s	-0.090 s	3.98 MiB	4.1 MiB	+ 126.85 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	28.2%	2,508	47	25
	JavaScript	0.7%	62	10	4
	CSS	0.5%	44	0	2
Total			8,878	3,914	60

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	2,273
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 1.24.0