Performance Lab 4.0.0

Does Performance Lab work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
4PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 52.15 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 version6.9
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 200,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/performance-lab/
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Pages 4

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=performance-lab%2Fload.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=8de5b4d01d
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.397 s
Memory usage 3.78 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Tools → Server-Timing

Page screenshot: Tools → Server-Timing
URL /wp-admin/tools.php?page=perflab-server-timing
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.269 s
Memory usage 3.76 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → Performance

Page screenshot: Settings → Performance
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=performance-lab
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.416 s
Memory usage 4.08 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 0.196 s
Memory usage 4.15 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.451 s0.398 s-0.053 s3.78 MiB3.83 MiB+ 52.8 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.385 s0.288 s-0.097 s3.78 MiB3.83 MiB+ 48.73 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.821 s1.138 s+0.317 s6.31 MiB6.41 MiB+ 108.14 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.556 s0.425 s-0.131 s3.74 MiB3.77 MiB+ 31.32 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.331 s0.309 s-0.022 s3.71 MiB3.75 MiB+ 35.31 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.548 s0.297 s-0.251 s3.7 MiB3.74 MiB+ 43.51 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.331 s0.301 s-0.030 s3.72 MiB3.77 MiB+ 54.18 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.718 s0.813 s+0.095 s6.3 MiB6.4 MiB+ 101.63 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.339 s0.335 s-0.004 s3.71 MiB3.75 MiB+ 31.81 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.336 s0.334 s-0.002 s3.73 MiB3.76 MiB+ 31.31 KiB
/0.292 s0.199 s-0.093 s4.12 MiB4.15 MiB+ 34.86 KiB
Average 0.464 s0.440 s-0.025 s4.24 MiB4.29 MiB+ 52.15 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
PHP97.7%2,9831,62926
JavaScript2.3%69211
Total 3,052 1,650 27

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 2,979
Total complexity 448
Median class complexity 19.5
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class Perflab_Server_Timing
Most complex function perflab_render_plugin_card()
Classes 2
Methods 15
Functions 89

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.

No new entries found.

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[02-Dec-2025 22:51:42 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 22:51:42 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 22:51:52 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 22:51:52 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Performance Lab Admin Menus