Anti-Spam by CleanTalk 6.16

Does Anti-Spam by CleanTalk work with WordPress 6.3.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
2PHP warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 372.83 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 version6.3.1
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 200,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/cleantalk-spam-protect/
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Pages 7

Anti-Spam by CleanTalk settings ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Anti-Spam by CleanTalk settings ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=cleantalk
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=cleantalk-spam-protect%2Fcleantalk.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=c366c8d17c
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.771 s
Memory usage 3.38 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Comments → Find spam comments

Page screenshot: Comments  → Find spam comments
URL /wp-admin/edit-comments.php?page=ct_check_spam
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.207 s
Memory usage 3.51 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Users → Find spam users

Page screenshot: Users → Find spam users
URL /wp-admin/users.php?page=ct_check_users
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.176 s
Memory usage 3.4 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → Anti-Spam by CleanTalk

Page screenshot: Settings → Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=cleantalk
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.304 s
Memory usage 3.36 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 0.353 s
Memory usage 3.43 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 0.288 s
Memory usage 3.2 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status 200
Load time 2.011 s
Memory usage 5.57 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.324 s0.291 s-0.033 s2.82 MiB3.2 MiB+ 385.72 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.183 s0.179 s-0.004 s2.85 MiB3.22 MiB+ 379.52 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.675 s0.715 s+0.040 s5.21 MiB5.62 MiB+ 419.27 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.500 s0.431 s-0.069 s2.77 MiB3.12 MiB+ 362.95 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.202 s0.180 s-0.022 s2.76 MiB3.11 MiB+ 354.52 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.260 s0.230 s-0.030 s2.74 MiB3.11 MiB+ 375.4 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.173 s0.183 s+0.010 s2.76 MiB3.13 MiB+ 379.99 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.531 s0.543 s+0.012 s5.21 MiB5.61 MiB+ 413.74 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.210 s0.222 s+0.012 s2.75 MiB3.1 MiB+ 364.93 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.394 s0.232 s-0.162 s2.78 MiB3.13 MiB+ 363.91 KiB
/0.240 s0.423 s+0.183 s3.13 MiB3.42 MiB+ 301.17 KiB
Average 0.336 s0.330 s-0.006 s3.25 MiB3.62 MiB+ 372.83 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
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP93.8%28,6218,790149
PO File2.9%8923341
HTML2.9%888124
SVG0.4%12601
Total 30,527 9,136 155

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 28,767
Total complexity 6,343
Median class complexity 10.5
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class Cleantalk\Common\Helper
Most complex function apbct_is_skip_request()
Classes 130
Methods 906
Functions 403

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 6

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID Name
cleantalk_widgetCleanTalk Widget

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "ct_dashboard_statistics_widget": {
            "title": "Anti-Spam by CleanTalk",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 2 lines

[29-Aug-2023 22:31:21 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key 0 in /wp-content/plugins/cleantalk-spam-protect/lib/Cleantalk/Common/Helper.php on line 618
[29-Aug-2023 22:31:21 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type null in /wp-content/plugins/cleantalk-spam-protect/lib/Cleantalk/Common/Helper.php on line 618
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Anti-Spam by CleanTalk Admin Menus and Widgets