Report - hCaptcha for WP 4.20.0

Does hCaptcha for WP work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-12-03 01:48:21 UTC.

Summary

Errors

4	PHP deprecation warnings
	No JavaScript exceptions
	All test pages loaded successfully
	No resource errors

Performance

Memory usage: 511.56 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	6.9
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-11-30T21:59:00+00:00
Active installs	70,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/hcaptcha-for-forms-and-more/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 8

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=hcaptcha-for-forms-and-more%2Fhcaptcha.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=1a49e49cf7
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.654 s
Memory usage	4.82 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

hCaptcha

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=hcaptcha
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.458 s
Memory usage	8.57 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

hCaptcha → Integrations

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=hcaptcha-integrations
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.892 s
Memory usage	4.37 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

hCaptcha → Forms

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=hcaptcha-forms
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.299 s
Memory usage	4.22 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

hCaptcha → Events

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=hcaptcha-events
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.436 s
Memory usage	4.22 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

hCaptcha → System Info

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=hcaptcha-systeminfo
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.316 s
Memory usage	4.22 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Tools → Scheduled Actions

URL	/wp-admin/tools.php?page=action-scheduler
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.263 s
Memory usage	4.26 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.221 s
Memory usage	4.42 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.396 s	0.343 s	-0.053 s	3.77 MiB	4.35 MiB	+ 587.7 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.332 s	0.286 s	-0.046 s	3.78 MiB	4.33 MiB	+ 567.66 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.802 s	0.817 s	+0.015 s	6.3 MiB	6.85 MiB	+ 555.94 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.415 s	0.653 s	+0.238 s	3.74 MiB	4.22 MiB	+ 501.14 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.499 s	0.315 s	-0.184 s	3.71 MiB	4.2 MiB	+ 505.13 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.450 s	0.355 s	-0.095 s	3.7 MiB	4.2 MiB	+ 513.33 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.301 s	0.289 s	-0.012 s	3.71 MiB	4.22 MiB	+ 517.88 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.657 s	0.644 s	-0.013 s	6.29 MiB	6.83 MiB	+ 549.45 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.304 s	0.363 s	+0.059 s	3.71 MiB	4.2 MiB	+ 501.63 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.298 s	0.321 s	+0.023 s	3.73 MiB	4.22 MiB	+ 501.13 KiB
/	0.254 s	0.182 s	-0.072 s	4.1 MiB	4.42 MiB	+ 326.13 KiB
Average	0.428 s	0.415 s	-0.013 s	4.23 MiB	4.73 MiB	+ 511.56 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

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	70.1%	21,249	13,592	198
	JavaScript	15.5%	4,705	961	63
	CSS	6.9%	2,100	22	17
	SVG	5.4%	1,633	7	44
	PO File	1.7%	513	237	2
	JSON	0.3%	90	0	1
	HTML	0.0%	5	0	1
Total			30,295	14,819	326

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	20,405
Total complexity	3,200
Median class complexity	8.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	KAGG\Settings\Abstracts\SettingsBase
Most complex function	HCaptcha\Main::load_modules()

Classes	190
Methods	1,314
Functions	17

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` 2

action_scheduler_lock_async-request-runner
hcaptcha_versions

Custom Post Types 1

ID	Name
scheduled-action	Scheduled Actions

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[03-Dec-2025 01:48:47 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 01:48:47 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 01:48:56 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 01:48:56 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131

hCaptcha for WP 4.20.0