Report - Broken Link Checker 2.4.2

Does Broken Link Checker work with WordPress 6.8 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-04-15 17:18:48 UTC.

Summary

Errors

1	PHP notices
	No JavaScript exceptions
	All test pages loaded successfully
	No resource errors

Performance

Memory usage: 376.62 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
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-04-24T15:09:00+00:00
Active installs	600,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 5

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=broken-link-checker%2Fbroken-link-checker.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=39ac2e9963
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.564 s
Memory usage	4.65 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Link Checker

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=blc_dash
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.829 s
Memory usage	3.87 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Link Checker → Local [old]

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=blc_local
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.547 s
Memory usage	4.08 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.222 s
Memory usage	3.65 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/index.php
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.398 s
Memory usage	3.87 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.352 s	0.368 s	+0.016 s	3.51 MiB	3.87 MiB	+ 375.85 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.206 s	0.250 s	+0.044 s	3.57 MiB	3.96 MiB	+ 394.97 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.854 s	0.734 s	-0.120 s	6.06 MiB	6.55 MiB	+ 496.05 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.790 s	0.427 s	-0.363 s	3.52 MiB	3.87 MiB	+ 353.58 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.208 s	0.230 s	+0.022 s	3.5 MiB	3.85 MiB	+ 357.57 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.279 s	0.309 s	+0.030 s	3.49 MiB	3.85 MiB	+ 365.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.189 s	0.391 s	+0.202 s	3.5 MiB	3.87 MiB	+ 376.44 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.778 s	0.717 s	-0.061 s	6.05 MiB	6.53 MiB	+ 490.77 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.443 s	0.469 s	+0.026 s	3.5 MiB	3.85 MiB	+ 354.07 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.226 s	0.243 s	+0.017 s	3.52 MiB	3.87 MiB	+ 353.57 KiB
/	0.327 s	0.221 s	-0.106 s	3.43 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 224.2 KiB
Average	0.423 s	0.396 s	-0.027 s	3.97 MiB	4.34 MiB	+ 376.62 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	48.4%	25,299	14,392	30
	PHP	47.4%	24,804	12,200	149
	JavaScript	2.2%	1,138	234	22
	CSS	1.1%	552	30	2
	XML	0.5%	246	0	2
	SVG	0.4%	190	0	1
	JSON	0.1%	62	0	1
	Sass	0.0%	2	1	1
Total			52,293	26,857	208

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	22,904
Total complexity	4,182
Median class complexity	15.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	wsBrokenLinkChecker
Most complex function	wsBrokenLinkChecker::options_page()

Classes	142
Methods	1,108
Functions	33

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.

Database Tables 4

wp_blc_filters
wp_blc_instances
wp_blc_links
wp_blc_synch

Options `wp_options` 4

blc_activation_enabled
blc_installation_log
blc_settings
wsblc_options

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "blc_dashboard_widget": {
            "title": "Broken Link Checker",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[15-Apr-2025 17:19:05 UTC] PHP Notice:  Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called <strong>incorrectly</strong>. Translation loading for the <code>broken-link-checker</code> domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the <code>init</code> action or later. Please see <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/debug/debug-wordpress/">Debugging in WordPress</a> for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121

Broken Link Checker 2.4.2