MalCare WordPress Security, Firewall & Malware Scanner 3.8

Does "MalCare WordPress Security, Firewall & Malware Scanner" work with WordPress 5.4 and PHP 7.2.16? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
No PHP errors, warnings or notices
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Looks good! No problems were detected.
Performance

Memory usage: 65.8 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 version5.4
PHP version7.2.16
MySQL version8.0.15
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 400,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/malcare-security/
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Pages 3

MalCare ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: MalCare ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=malcare
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=malcare-security%2Fmalcare.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=f265c42504
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.183 s
Memory usage 3.67 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

MalCare

Page screenshot: MalCare
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=malcare
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.523 s
Memory usage 3.58 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 0.269 s
Memory usage 3.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.286 s0.256 s-0.030 s3.64 MiB3.74 MiB+ 98.8 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.222 s0.231 s+0.009 s3.66 MiB3.76 MiB+ 98.49 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.239 s1.427 s+0.188 s5.43 MiB5.53 MiB+ 101.57 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.432 s0.488 s+0.056 s3.5 MiB3.59 MiB+ 97.36 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.440 s0.160 s-0.280 s3.58 MiB3.58 MiB+ 3.92 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.209 s0.198 s-0.011 s3.48 MiB3.58 MiB+ 97.53 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.176 s0.197 s+0.021 s3.58 MiB3.62 MiB+ 34.44 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.019 s1.115 s+0.096 s5.42 MiB5.51 MiB+ 90.75 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.270 s0.490 s+0.220 s3.48 MiB3.58 MiB+ 98.16 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.193 s0.211 s+0.018 s3.59 MiB3.68 MiB+ 97.38 KiB
/0.334 s0.216 s-0.118 s3.43 MiB3.34 MiB- 94.66 KiB
Average 0.438 s0.454 s+0.015 s3.89 MiB3.95 MiB+ 65.8 KiB

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 4

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide the "MalCare" Admin Menu