MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress 4.55

Does "MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress" work with WordPress 5.7 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: 68.72 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 version5.7
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=cd5c8ae1b7
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.665 s
Memory usage 2.82 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 0.213 s
Memory usage 2.76 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 0.183 s
Memory usage 2.67 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.264 s0.287 s+0.023 s2.82 MiB2.86 MiB+ 39.39 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.181 s0.191 s+0.010 s2.86 MiB2.96 MiB+ 103.07 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.003 s1.125 s+0.122 s5.02 MiB5.14 MiB+ 116.05 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.519 s0.310 s-0.209 s2.7 MiB2.79 MiB+ 97.94 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.256 s0.148 s-0.108 s2.71 MiB2.77 MiB+ 65.92 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.220 s0.159 s-0.061 s2.67 MiB2.77 MiB+ 98.11 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.182 s0.195 s+0.013 s2.77 MiB2.8 MiB+ 35.02 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.251 s0.817 s-0.434 s5.01 MiB5.11 MiB+ 107.64 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.318 s0.319 s+0.001 s2.67 MiB2.77 MiB+ 98.74 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.240 s0.287 s+0.047 s2.78 MiB2.81 MiB+ 33.97 KiB
/0.283 s0.223 s-0.060 s2.71 MiB2.67 MiB- 39.91 KiB
Average 0.429 s0.369 s-0.060 s3.16 MiB3.22 MiB+ 68.72 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
PHP98.0%5,9617346
SVG2.0%12206
Total 6,083 73 52

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 5,627
Total complexity 1,393
Median class complexity 22.0
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class BVFW
Most complex function BVDBCallback::process()
Classes 43
Methods 509
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