PWA for WP - Progressive Web Apps Made Simple 1.7.82

Does "PWA for WP - Progressive Web Apps Made Simple" 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: 191.83 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 20,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/pwa-for-wp/
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Pages 9

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=pwa-for-wp%2Fpwa-for-wp.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=da701633e3
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.458 s
Memory usage 3.92 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

PWA

Page screenshot: PWA
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=pwaforwp
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.753 s
Memory usage 4 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

PWA → Setup

Page screenshot: PWA →  Setup
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=pwaforwp&tab=general
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.530 s
Memory usage 3.97 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

PWA → Features

Page screenshot: PWA →  Features
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=pwaforwp&tab=features
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.631 s
Memory usage 3.97 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

PWA → Tools

Page screenshot: PWA →  Tools
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=pwaforwp&tab=tools
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.529 s
Memory usage 3.97 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

PWA → Advance

Page screenshot: PWA →  Advance
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=pwaforwp&tab=other_setting
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.487 s
Memory usage 3.97 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

PWA → Premium Features

Page screenshot: PWA →   Premium Features
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=pwaforwp&tab=premium_features
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.511 s
Memory usage 3.97 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

PWA → Help

Page screenshot: PWA →  Help
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=pwaforwp&tab=help
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.498 s
Memory usage 3.97 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 0.266 s
Memory usage 4.18 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.423 s0.600 s+0.177 s3.77 MiB3.97 MiB+ 197.52 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.347 s0.314 s-0.033 s3.78 MiB4.03 MiB+ 254.7 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.784 s0.749 s-0.035 s6.3 MiB6.53 MiB+ 232.95 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.445 s0.391 s-0.054 s3.73 MiB3.91 MiB+ 178.48 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.447 s0.313 s-0.134 s3.71 MiB3.89 MiB+ 182.79 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.471 s0.505 s+0.034 s3.7 MiB3.89 MiB+ 190.98 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.296 s0.302 s+0.006 s3.71 MiB3.91 MiB+ 201.34 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.662 s0.639 s-0.023 s6.29 MiB6.51 MiB+ 226.07 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.307 s0.477 s+0.170 s3.71 MiB3.89 MiB+ 179.29 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.318 s0.319 s+0.001 s3.73 MiB3.91 MiB+ 178.78 KiB
/0.252 s0.189 s-0.063 s4.1 MiB4.19 MiB+ 87.22 KiB
Average 0.432 s0.436 s+0.004 s4.23 MiB4.42 MiB+ 191.83 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
JavaScript
CSS
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP53.2%7,3961,61112
JavaScript21.7%3,01112812
CSS16.9%2,344496
PO File6.4%8874082
SVG1.7%23903
HTML0.2%2401
Total 13,901 2,196 36

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 8,313
Total complexity 2,006
Median class complexity 107.0
Median method complexity 4.0
Most complex class PWAFORWP_Service_Worker
Most complex function pwaforwp_update_features_options()
Classes 7
Methods 88
Functions 161

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 1

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[03-Dec-2025 09:42:02 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
[03-Dec-2025 09:42:02 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
[03-Dec-2025 09:42:11 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
[03-Dec-2025 09:42:11 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 PWA for WP - Progressive Web Apps Made Simple Admin Menus