Varnish Caching 1.8.3

Does Varnish Caching work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1PHP warnings
3PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 59.09 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 version6.8.1
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 1,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/vcaching/
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Pages 6

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=vcaching%2Fvcaching.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=f5de1de1d8
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.276 s
Memory usage 3.58 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Varnish Caching

Page screenshot: Varnish Caching
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcaching-plugin
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.169 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Varnish Caching → Console

Page screenshot: Varnish Caching → Console
URL /wp-admin/index.php?page=vcaching-plugin&tab=console
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.159 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Varnish Caching → Statistics

Page screenshot: Varnish Caching → Statistics
URL /wp-admin/index.php?page=vcaching-plugin&tab=stats
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.147 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Varnish Caching → VCLs Generator

Page screenshot: Varnish Caching → VCLs Generator
URL /wp-admin/index.php?page=vcaching-plugin&tab=conf
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.145 s
Memory usage 3.55 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 0.189 s
Memory usage 3.5 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.345 s0.292 s-0.053 s3.51 MiB3.57 MiB+ 63.06 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.190 s0.191 s+0.001 s3.57 MiB3.66 MiB+ 86.2 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.786 s0.795 s+0.009 s6.06 MiB6.13 MiB+ 66.24 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.779 s0.550 s-0.229 s3.52 MiB3.57 MiB+ 44.41 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.238 s0.233 s-0.005 s3.5 MiB3.55 MiB+ 48.4 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.269 s0.268 s-0.001 s3.49 MiB3.55 MiB+ 56.59 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.203 s0.195 s-0.008 s3.5 MiB3.57 MiB+ 67.27 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.615 s0.620 s+0.005 s6.05 MiB6.11 MiB+ 61.77 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.436 s0.277 s-0.159 s3.5 MiB3.55 MiB+ 44.9 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.284 s0.424 s+0.140 s3.52 MiB3.57 MiB+ 44.4 KiB
/0.317 s0.238 s-0.079 s3.43 MiB3.5 MiB+ 66.8 KiB
Average 0.406 s0.371 s-0.034 s3.97 MiB4.03 MiB+ 59.09 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
PO File
reStructuredText
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP77.5%976523
PO File13.7%172812
reStructuredText8.9%11201
Total 1,260 133 6

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 963
Total complexity 202
Median class complexity 101.0
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class VCaching
Most complex function VCaching::init()
Classes 2
Methods 54
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.

No new entries found.

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[02-May-2025 22:53:11 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41
[02-May-2025 22:53:12 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41
[02-May-2025 22:53:12 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "info" in /wp-content/plugins/vcaching/vcaching.php on line 618
[02-May-2025 22:53:13 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide the "Varnish Caching" Admin Menu