MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress 4.54

Does "MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress" work with WordPress 5.6.2 and PHP 7.4.8? 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: 69.57 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 version5.6.2
PHP version7.4.8
MySQL version8.0.21
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 500,000+
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=13ddfacc58
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.791 s
Memory usage 2.79 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 0.229 s
Memory usage 2.73 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 0.308 s
Memory usage 2.63 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.311 s0.291 s-0.020 s2.8 MiB2.83 MiB+ 32.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.217 s0.208 s-0.009 s2.84 MiB2.92 MiB+ 83.24 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.956 s0.680 s-0.276 s4.94 MiB5.04 MiB+ 109.12 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.636 s0.268 s-0.368 s2.67 MiB2.76 MiB+ 95.31 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.263 s0.259 s-0.004 s2.69 MiB2.75 MiB+ 63.3 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.323 s0.251 s-0.072 s2.65 MiB2.74 MiB+ 95.48 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.211 s0.203 s-0.008 s2.68 MiB2.78 MiB+ 96.39 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.112 s0.696 s-0.416 s4.93 MiB5.03 MiB+ 104.7 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.311 s0.293 s-0.018 s2.65 MiB2.74 MiB+ 96.12 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.219 s0.228 s+0.009 s2.75 MiB2.78 MiB+ 31.34 KiB
/0.325 s0.221 s-0.104 s2.67 MiB2.63 MiB- 42.53 KiB
Average 0.444 s0.327 s-0.117 s3.11 MiB3.18 MiB+ 69.57 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
PHP97.9%5,7077346
SVG2.1%12206
Total 5,829 73 52

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 5,376
Total complexity 1,331
Median class complexity 21.0
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class BVFW
Most complex function BVDBCallback::process()
Classes 43
Methods 485
Functions 0

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 3

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

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