Burst Statistics - Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress 2.1.0

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

Memory usage: 192.52 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 4

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=burst
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=burst-statistics%2Fburst.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=f594a206ae
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 2.492 s
Memory usage 3.75 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 1.408 s
Memory usage 3.69 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 0.318 s
Memory usage 3.48 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 0.692 s
Memory usage 3.72 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.536 s0.641 s+0.105 s3.51 MiB3.72 MiB+ 219.13 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.346 s0.312 s-0.034 s3.57 MiB3.75 MiB+ 182.66 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.381 s1.179 s-0.202 s6.06 MiB6.41 MiB+ 353.73 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.767 s0.746 s-0.021 s3.52 MiB3.69 MiB+ 166.14 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.244 s0.393 s+0.149 s3.5 MiB3.67 MiB+ 169.52 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.416 s0.381 s-0.035 s3.49 MiB3.67 MiB+ 177.7 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.277 s0.339 s+0.062 s3.5 MiB3.69 MiB+ 188.38 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.021 s1.171 s+0.150 s6.05 MiB6.33 MiB+ 285.26 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.445 s0.511 s+0.066 s3.5 MiB3.67 MiB+ 166.01 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.386 s0.375 s-0.011 s3.52 MiB3.69 MiB+ 165.51 KiB
/0.513 s0.376 s-0.137 s3.43 MiB3.48 MiB+ 43.66 KiB
Average 0.576 s0.584 s+0.008 s3.97 MiB4.16 MiB+ 192.52 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.

PHP
JavaScript
CSS
Sass
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP31.5%12,7633,56978
JavaScript24.1%9,7561,254136
CSS17.5%7,09759314
Sass11.6%4,6877559
TypeScript6.4%2,60830235
JSX6.3%2,55028537
HTML1.6%6606311
JSON0.4%17102
LESS0.4%15201
SVG0.1%3814
Markdown0.0%1602
Total 40,498 6,142 379

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 11,557
Total complexity 2,277
Median class complexity 23.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class Burst\Admin\App\App
Most complex function parse_user_agent()
Classes 41
Methods 406
Functions 20

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 1 lines

[07-Jul-2025 12:47:18 UTC] Burst Statistics 2.1.0: Upgrading database tables for Burst Statistics
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Burst Statistics - Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress Admin Menus and Widgets