Report - ALTCHA Spam Protection 1.26.1

Does ALTCHA Spam Protection work with WordPress 6.8.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-10-02 11:39:34 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: 137.59 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	2025-09-09T03:11:00+00:00
Active installs	4,000+
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=69a7d7c8eb
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.318 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	0.255 s
Memory usage	3.66 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.173 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	0.452 s	0.301 s	-0.151 s	3.51 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 150.59 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.205 s	0.187 s	-0.018 s	3.57 MiB	3.72 MiB	+ 148.55 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.801 s	0.646 s	-0.155 s	6.06 MiB	6.22 MiB	+ 162.29 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.586 s	0.544 s	-0.042 s	3.52 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 131.14 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.235 s	0.221 s	-0.014 s	3.5 MiB	3.63 MiB	+ 135.13 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.361 s	0.249 s	-0.112 s	3.49 MiB	3.63 MiB	+ 143.33 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.204 s	0.222 s	+0.018 s	3.5 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 154 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.628 s	0.597 s	-0.031 s	6.05 MiB	6.2 MiB	+ 157.81 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.267 s	0.427 s	+0.160 s	3.5 MiB	3.63 MiB	+ 131.63 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.434 s	0.206 s	-0.228 s	3.52 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 131.13 KiB
/	0.306 s	0.415 s	+0.109 s	3.43 MiB	3.5 MiB	+ 67.83 KiB
Average	0.407 s	0.365 s	-0.042 s	3.97 MiB	4.1 MiB	+ 137.59 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	69.4%	6,264	3,857	29
	PHP	29.4%	2,650	49	29
	JavaScript	0.7%	62	10	4
	CSS	0.5%	44	0	2
Total			9,020	3,916	64

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	2,413
Total complexity	262
Median class complexity	19.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	AltchaPlugin
Most complex function	altcha_settings_init()

Classes	6
Methods	78
Functions	29

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 1.26.1