Report - Web Stories 1.42.0

Does Web Stories work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-12-03 01:31:34 UTC.

Summary

Errors

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

Performance

Memory usage: 1020.59 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 version	6.9
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-05-15T13:13:00+00:00
Active installs	80,000+
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=a8eff980fd
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.586 s
Memory usage	4.51 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	3.599 s
Memory usage	6.63 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	2.407 s
Memory usage	6.58 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	0.377 s
Memory usage	4.55 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Stories → Add New Story

URL	/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=web-story#page=%2522b41a121c-93a8-4ae7-ba62-480002e35ce0%2522
Requested URL	/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=web-story
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	5.104 s
Memory usage	6.89 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	0.908 s
Memory usage	4.49 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	0.299 s
Memory usage	4.49 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.301 s
Memory usage	4.86 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	1.175 s
Memory usage	7.54 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.489 s	0.476 s	-0.013 s	3.77 MiB	4.6 MiB	+ 849.7 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.370 s	0.325 s	-0.045 s	3.78 MiB	4.63 MiB	+ 869.61 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.874 s	1.227 s	+0.353 s	6.3 MiB	8.24 MiB	+ 1.94 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.622 s	0.406 s	-0.216 s	3.74 MiB	4.5 MiB	+ 788.2 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.341 s	0.438 s	+0.097 s	3.71 MiB	4.48 MiB	+ 791.88 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.516 s	0.396 s	-0.120 s	3.7 MiB	4.48 MiB	+ 800.08 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.334 s	0.336 s	+0.002 s	3.71 MiB	4.5 MiB	+ 804.94 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.687 s	0.717 s	+0.030 s	6.29 MiB	8.23 MiB	+ 1.93 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.346 s	0.387 s	+0.041 s	3.71 MiB	4.48 MiB	+ 788.07 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.331 s	0.344 s	+0.013 s	3.73 MiB	4.5 MiB	+ 787.88 KiB
/	0.435 s	0.323 s	-0.112 s	4.1 MiB	4.86 MiB	+ 779.61 KiB
Average	0.486 s	0.489 s	+0.003 s	4.23 MiB	5.23 MiB	+ 1020.59 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 4 lines

[03-Dec-2025 01:32:17 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 01:32:17 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 01:32:27 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 01:32:27 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

Web Stories 1.42.0