W3 Total Cache 2.1.7

Does W3 Total Cache work with WordPress 5.8 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: 418.14 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.147 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.8
PHP version7.4.8
MySQL version8.0.21
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 1,000,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/
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Pages 20

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=w3-total-cache%2Fw3-total-cache.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=91a0458bde
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.726 s
Memory usage 3.64 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance

Page screenshot: Performance
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_dashboard
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.565 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → Feature Showcase

Page screenshot: Performance  → Feature Showcase
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_feature_showcase
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.275 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → General Settings

Page screenshot: Performance  → General Settings
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_general
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.246 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → Page Cache

Page screenshot: Performance  → Page Cache
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_pgcache
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.247 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → Minify

Page screenshot: Performance  → Minify
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_minify
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.236 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → Database Cache

Page screenshot: Performance  → Database Cache
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_dbcache
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.242 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → Object Cache

Page screenshot: Performance  → Object Cache
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_objectcache
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.231 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → Browser Cache

Page screenshot: Performance  → Browser Cache
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_browsercache
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.250 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → Cache Groups

Page screenshot: Performance  → Cache Groups
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_cachegroups
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.231 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → CDN

Page screenshot: Performance  → CDN
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_cdn
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.240 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → Fragment Cache

Page screenshot: Performance  → Fragment Cache
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_fragmentcache
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.309 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → Support

Page screenshot: Performance  → Support
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_support
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.242 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → User Experience

Page screenshot: Performance  → User Experience
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_userexperience
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.227 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → Install

Page screenshot: Performance  → Install
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_install
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.227 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → Setup Guide

Page screenshot: Performance  → Setup Guide
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.252 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → About

Page screenshot: Performance  → About
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_about
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.252 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → Extensions

Page screenshot: Performance  → Extensions
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_extensions
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.217 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Performance → Statistics

Page screenshot: Performance  → Statistics
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_stats
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.289 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 0.327 s
Memory usage 3 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.329 s0.433 s+0.104 s3.08 MiB3.51 MiB+ 440.29 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.176 s0.258 s+0.082 s3.11 MiB3.61 MiB+ 505.72 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.923 s1.790 s+0.867 s5.27 MiB5.76 MiB+ 508.65 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.549 s0.514 s-0.035 s3.03 MiB3.49 MiB+ 471.47 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.169 s0.221 s+0.052 s3.02 MiB3.41 MiB+ 390.82 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.239 s0.264 s+0.025 s3.01 MiB3.41 MiB+ 407.64 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.182 s0.202 s+0.020 s3.04 MiB3.45 MiB+ 425.17 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.968 s1.288 s+0.320 s5.26 MiB5.75 MiB+ 508.23 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.215 s0.353 s+0.138 s3 MiB3.42 MiB+ 423.33 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.203 s0.270 s+0.067 s3.04 MiB3.46 MiB+ 423.49 KiB
/0.301 s0.273 s-0.028 s2.91 MiB3 MiB+ 94.73 KiB
Average 0.387 s0.533 s+0.147 s3.43 MiB3.84 MiB+ 418.14 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
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP81.8%108,53343,109814
PO File11.8%15,5926,7434
JavaScript4.3%5,63942042
CSS1.8%2,39311819
Java0.2%231771
Markdown0.1%11703
INI0.1%84166
JSON0.0%1801
SVG0.0%404
Total 132,611 50,483 894

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 93,384
Total complexity 20,889
Median class complexity 12.0
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class wsdl
Most complex function W3TCL\Minify\JSMinPlus::parseTree()
Classes 705
Methods 5,904
Functions 127

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

User Metadata wp_usermeta 1

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide W3 Total Cache Admin Menus