MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress 4.75

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 .

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 version5.9.1
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=c689e35970
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.691 s
Memory usage 3.37 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 0.414 s
Memory usage 3.32 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 0.234 s
Memory usage 3.37 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.405 s0.310 s-0.095 s3.37 MiB3.4 MiB+ 36.14 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.190 s0.182 s-0.008 s3.4 MiB3.5 MiB+ 99.82 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.008 s1.216 s+0.208 s6.14 MiB6.18 MiB+ 40.49 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.378 s0.343 s-0.035 s3.25 MiB3.35 MiB+ 106.69 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.266 s0.152 s-0.114 s3.24 MiB3.33 MiB+ 90.55 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.269 s0.205 s-0.064 s3.23 MiB3.33 MiB+ 106.86 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.179 s0.172 s-0.007 s3.27 MiB3.36 MiB+ 99.77 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.973 s0.831 s-0.142 s6.14 MiB6.17 MiB+ 36.08 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.229 s0.311 s+0.082 s3.22 MiB3.33 MiB+ 107.49 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.215 s0.185 s-0.030 s3.27 MiB3.37 MiB+ 98.72 KiB
/0.267 s0.192 s-0.075 s3.4 MiB3.37 MiB- 30.11 KiB
Average 0.398 s0.373 s-0.025 s3.81 MiB3.88 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
PHP99.1%7,6759850
SVG0.9%7311
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

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

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