Report - Web Stories 1.42.0

Does Web Stories work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-05-15 13:32:08 UTC.

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: 1010.47 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.100 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment

WordPress version	6.8.1
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	4 days ago
Active installs	90,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/web-stories/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 9

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=web-stories%2Fweb-stories.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=020b0273fa
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.773 s
Memory usage	4.3 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Stories

URL	/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=web-story&page=stories-dashboard#/templates-gallery
Requested URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=stories-dashboard
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	2.817 s
Memory usage	6.39 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Stories → Dashboard

URL	/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=web-story&page=stories-dashboard#/templates-gallery
Requested URL	/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=web-story&page=stories-dashboard
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	2.197 s
Memory usage	6.32 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Stories → All Stories

URL	/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=web-story
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.458 s
Memory usage	4.34 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Stories → Add New Story

URL	/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=web-story#page=%2522801c20f9-606a-4aef-a452-058693bf484b%2522
Requested URL	/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=web-story
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	4.555 s
Memory usage	6.63 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Stories → Categories

URL	/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=web_story_category&post_type=web-story
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.815 s
Memory usage	4.28 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Stories → Tags

URL	/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=web_story_tag&post_type=web-story
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.253 s
Memory usage	4.28 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.304 s
Memory usage	4.19 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect	new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.624 s
Memory usage	7.2 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.302 s	0.484 s	+0.182 s	3.51 MiB	4.29 MiB	+ 804.05 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.202 s	0.299 s	+0.097 s	3.57 MiB	4.4 MiB	+ 847.95 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.784 s	1.102 s	+0.318 s	6.06 MiB	7.99 MiB	+ 1.93 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.740 s	0.424 s	-0.316 s	3.52 MiB	4.29 MiB	+ 784.13 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.199 s	0.298 s	+0.099 s	3.5 MiB	4.27 MiB	+ 788.75 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.257 s	0.491 s	+0.234 s	3.49 MiB	4.27 MiB	+ 796.95 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.187 s	0.264 s	+0.077 s	3.5 MiB	4.29 MiB	+ 802.12 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.631 s	0.882 s	+0.251 s	6.05 MiB	7.98 MiB	+ 1.92 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.278 s	0.455 s	+0.177 s	3.5 MiB	4.27 MiB	+ 785.88 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.203 s	0.285 s	+0.082 s	3.52 MiB	4.29 MiB	+ 784.75 KiB
/	0.312 s	0.209 s	-0.103 s	3.43 MiB	4.19 MiB	+ 774.63 KiB
Average	0.372 s	0.472 s	+0.100 s	3.97 MiB	4.96 MiB	+ 1010.47 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.

JSON

PHP

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	JSON	77.1%	54,505	0	3
	PHP	22.4%	15,820	17,543	210
	JavaScript	0.4%	303	10	159
	CSS	0.0%	29	0	23
	Markdown	0.0%	5	0	1
Total			70,662	17,553	396

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	15,108
Total complexity	2,562
Median class complexity	8.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	Google\Web_Stories\REST_API\Hotlinking_Controller
Most complex function	Google\Web_Stories\REST_API\Hotlinking_Controller::validate_url()

Classes	159
Methods	941
Functions	55

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

web_stories_db_version
web_stories_previous_db_version
widget_web_stories_widget

Custom Post Types 3

ID	Name
web-story	Stories
web-story-font	Posts
web-story-page	Page Templates

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID	Name
web_stories_widget	Web Stories

Capabilities 17

manage_terms_web-stories
edit_terms_web-stories
delete_terms_web-stories
assign_terms_web-stories
edit_web-story
read_web-story
delete_web-story
edit_web-stories
edit_others_web-stories
delete_web-stories
publish_web-stories
read_private_web-stories
delete_private_web-stories
delete_published_web-stories
delete_others_web-stories
edit_private_web-stories
edit_published_web-stories

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Web Stories 1.42.0