Report - MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress 4.74

Does "MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress" work with WordPress 5.9.1 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2022-02-23 09:26:39 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: 72.04 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	5.9.1
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=d1ad9cac58
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.776 s
Memory usage	3.37 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

MalCare

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=malcare
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.236 s
Memory usage	3.32 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.230 s
Memory usage	3.37 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.360 s	0.262 s	-0.098 s	3.37 MiB	3.4 MiB	+ 36.14 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.191 s	0.209 s	+0.018 s	3.4 MiB	3.5 MiB	+ 99.82 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.837 s	0.959 s	+0.122 s	6.14 MiB	6.18 MiB	+ 40.49 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.379 s	0.314 s	-0.065 s	3.25 MiB	3.35 MiB	+ 106.69 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.270 s	0.139 s	-0.131 s	3.24 MiB	3.33 MiB	+ 90.55 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.290 s	0.191 s	-0.099 s	3.23 MiB	3.33 MiB	+ 106.86 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.197 s	0.320 s	+0.123 s	3.27 MiB	3.36 MiB	+ 99.77 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.633 s	0.708 s	+0.075 s	6.14 MiB	6.17 MiB	+ 36.08 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.271 s	0.207 s	-0.064 s	3.22 MiB	3.33 MiB	+ 107.49 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.213 s	0.204 s	-0.009 s	3.27 MiB	3.37 MiB	+ 98.72 KiB
/	0.291 s	0.200 s	-0.091 s	3.4 MiB	3.37 MiB	- 30.11 KiB
Average	0.357 s	0.338 s	-0.020 s	3.81 MiB	3.88 MiB	+ 72.04 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	99.1%	7,675	98	50
	SVG	0.9%	73	1	1
Total			7,748	99	51

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	7,316
Total complexity	1,831
Median class complexity	25.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	BVManageCallback
Most complex function	BVDBCallback::process()

Classes	47
Methods	648
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 4.74