Burst Statistics - Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress 2.0.6

Does "Burst Statistics - Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress" work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1PHP warnings
1Unrecognized messages in the PHP error log
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 171.27 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 version6.8.1
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 300,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/burst-statistics/
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Pages 5

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=burst-statistics%2Fburst.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=c3885ba4d2
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.703 s
Memory usage 4.13 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics

Page screenshot: Statistics
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=burst
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.220 s
Memory usage 3.68 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics → Dashboard

Page screenshot: Statistics → Dashboard
URL /wp-admin/
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.403 s
Memory usage 3.7 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.230 s
Memory usage 3.47 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/index.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.341 s
Memory usage 3.7 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.281 s0.284 s+0.003 s3.51 MiB3.7 MiB+ 202.75 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.176 s0.168 s-0.008 s3.57 MiB3.73 MiB+ 166.43 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.766 s1.129 s+0.363 s6.06 MiB6.39 MiB+ 337.18 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.559 s0.452 s-0.107 s3.52 MiB3.67 MiB+ 149.91 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.178 s0.173 s-0.005 s3.5 MiB3.65 MiB+ 153.27 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.230 s0.233 s+0.003 s3.49 MiB3.65 MiB+ 161.47 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.171 s0.189 s+0.018 s3.5 MiB3.67 MiB+ 172.14 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.167 s0.658 s-0.509 s6.05 MiB6.31 MiB+ 269.02 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.383 s0.225 s-0.158 s3.5 MiB3.65 MiB+ 149.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.186 s0.185 s-0.001 s3.52 MiB3.67 MiB+ 149.27 KiB
/0.325 s0.212 s-0.113 s3.5 MiB3.47 MiB- 27.28 KiB
Average 0.402 s0.355 s-0.047 s3.98 MiB4.14 MiB+ 171.27 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.

JavaScript
PHP
CSS
Sass
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
JavaScript39.9%17,3241,676236
PHP28.9%12,5553,31272
CSS11.1%4,8401818
Sass10.4%4,5327558
JSX4.7%2,04722831
TypeScript2.8%1,23018016
HTML1.5%6606311
LESS0.4%15201
SVG0.1%3814
JSON0.1%2401
Markdown0.0%1602
Total 43,418 5,716 440

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 11,735
Total complexity 2,118
Median class complexity 21.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class Burst\Admin\App\App
Most complex function parse_user_agent()
Classes 35
Methods 322
Functions 60

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 9

Options wp_options 8

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "dashboard_widget_burst": {
            "title": "Burst Statistics",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

Capabilities 2

PHP Error Log 2 lines

[26-May-2025 13:47:45 UTC] Burst Statistics 2.0.6: Upgrading database tables for Burst Statistics
[26-May-2025 13:47:48 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type null in /wp-content/plugins/burst-statistics/endpoint.php on line 103
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Burst Statistics - Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress Admin Menus and Widgets