MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress 4.67

Does "MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress" work with WordPress 5.8.2 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: 61.75 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 version5.8.2
PHP version7.4.8
MySQL version8.0.21
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=42a3188425
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.714 s
Memory usage 3.08 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 0.202 s
Memory usage 3.03 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 0.212 s
Memory usage 2.99 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.277 s0.253 s-0.024 s3.08 MiB3.18 MiB+ 98.58 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.164 s0.176 s+0.012 s3.11 MiB3.21 MiB+ 98.26 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.708 s0.830 s+0.122 s5.27 MiB5.37 MiB+ 102.93 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.357 s0.295 s-0.062 s3.03 MiB3.06 MiB+ 33.13 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.245 s0.131 s-0.114 s3.02 MiB3.04 MiB+ 17.11 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.433 s0.174 s-0.259 s3.01 MiB3.04 MiB+ 33.3 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.193 s0.171 s-0.022 s3.04 MiB3.07 MiB+ 34.2 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.566 s0.932 s+0.366 s5.26 MiB5.35 MiB+ 98.52 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.219 s0.256 s+0.037 s3 MiB3.04 MiB+ 33.93 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.210 s0.194 s-0.016 s3.04 MiB3.14 MiB+ 97.16 KiB
/0.338 s0.198 s-0.140 s2.96 MiB2.99 MiB+ 32.11 KiB
Average 0.337 s0.328 s-0.009 s3.44 MiB3.5 MiB+ 61.75 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
PHP98.8%6,1727446
SVG1.2%7311
Total 6,245 75 47

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 5,839
Total complexity 1,441
Median class complexity 25.0
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class BVFW
Most complex function BVDBCallback::process()
Classes 43
Methods 520
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