Report - 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 2021-12-01 09:12:18 UTC.

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 version	5.8.2
PHP version	7.4.8
MySQL version	8.0.21
PHP memory limit	256M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2024-10-15T06:17:00+00:00
Active installs	500,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/malcare-security/
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Pages 3

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

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

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
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.277 s	0.253 s	-0.024 s	3.08 MiB	3.18 MiB	+ 98.58 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.164 s	0.176 s	+0.012 s	3.11 MiB	3.21 MiB	+ 98.26 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.708 s	0.830 s	+0.122 s	5.27 MiB	5.37 MiB	+ 102.93 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.357 s	0.295 s	-0.062 s	3.03 MiB	3.06 MiB	+ 33.13 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.245 s	0.131 s	-0.114 s	3.02 MiB	3.04 MiB	+ 17.11 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.433 s	0.174 s	-0.259 s	3.01 MiB	3.04 MiB	+ 33.3 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.193 s	0.171 s	-0.022 s	3.04 MiB	3.07 MiB	+ 34.2 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.566 s	0.932 s	+0.366 s	5.26 MiB	5.35 MiB	+ 98.52 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.219 s	0.256 s	+0.037 s	3 MiB	3.04 MiB	+ 33.93 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.210 s	0.194 s	-0.016 s	3.04 MiB	3.14 MiB	+ 97.16 KiB
/	0.338 s	0.198 s	-0.140 s	2.96 MiB	2.99 MiB	+ 32.11 KiB
Average	0.337 s	0.328 s	-0.009 s	3.44 MiB	3.5 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
	PHP	98.8%	6,172	74	46
	SVG	1.2%	73	1	1
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

bvActivateTime
bvSecretKey
mcredirect

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

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