Yoast SEO 20.13

Does Yoast SEO work with WordPress 6.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

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

Memory usage: 936.06 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 version6.3
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 10,000,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
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Pages 16

‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_installation_successful_free
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=wordpress-seo%2Fwp-seo.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=71e68c5004
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 2.350 s
Memory usage 3.79 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Yoast SEO

Page screenshot: Yoast SEO
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_dashboard
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.065 s
Memory usage 4 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Yoast SEO → First-time configuration

Page screenshot: Yoast SEO  → First-time configuration
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_dashboard
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.808 s
Memory usage 3.65 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Yoast SEO → Settings

Page screenshot: Yoast SEO  → Settings
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_page_settings
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.648 s
Memory usage 3.67 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Yoast SEO → Integrations

Page screenshot: Yoast SEO  → Integrations
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_integrations
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.591 s
Memory usage 3.62 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Yoast SEO → Tools

Page screenshot: Yoast SEO  → Tools
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_tools
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.493 s
Memory usage 3.95 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Yoast SEO → Academy

Page screenshot: Yoast SEO  → Academy
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_page_academy
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.443 s
Memory usage 3.54 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Yoast SEO → Premium

Page screenshot: Yoast SEO  → Premium
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_licenses
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.743 s
Memory usage 3.73 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Yoast SEO → Workouts

Page screenshot: Yoast SEO  → Workouts
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_workouts
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.585 s
Memory usage 3.63 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Yoast SEO → Redirects

Page screenshot: Yoast SEO  → Redirects
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_redirects
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.445 s
Memory usage 3.62 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Yoast SEO → Redirects → Settings

Page screenshot: Yoast SEO  → Redirects  → 
					Settings
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_redirects
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.395 s
Memory usage 3.56 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Yoast SEO → Support

Page screenshot: Yoast SEO  → Support
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_page_support
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.364 s
Memory usage 3.52 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 0.288 s
Memory usage 4.06 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/index.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.504 s
Memory usage 3.7 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Add New Post ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Add New Post ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.950 s
Memory usage 6.43 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Add New Page ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Add New Page ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.026 s
Memory usage 6.36 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.339 s0.610 s+0.271 s2.82 MiB3.7 MiB+ 894.08 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.193 s0.338 s+0.145 s2.85 MiB3.89 MiB+ 1.04 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.726 s1.404 s+0.678 s5.21 MiB6.49 MiB+ 1.28 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.577 s0.547 s-0.030 s2.77 MiB3.58 MiB+ 829.78 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.268 s0.219 s-0.049 s2.76 MiB3.6 MiB+ 853.21 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.492 s0.237 s-0.255 s2.74 MiB3.53 MiB+ 809.15 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.185 s0.226 s+0.041 s2.76 MiB3.61 MiB+ 876.73 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.562 s0.932 s+0.370 s5.21 MiB6.36 MiB+ 1.15 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.229 s0.320 s+0.091 s2.75 MiB3.53 MiB+ 798.26 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.384 s0.231 s-0.153 s2.78 MiB3.62 MiB+ 859.24 KiB
/0.290 s0.277 s-0.013 s3.13 MiB3.93 MiB+ 821.36 KiB
Average 0.386 s0.486 s+0.100 s3.25 MiB4.17 MiB+ 936.06 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
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP99.3%66,54956,303963
SVG0.4%245150
XSLT0.2%14501
XML0.1%4401
JavaScript0.0%1174
Total 66,994 56,311 1,019

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 54,383
Total complexity 13,435
Median class complexity 6.0
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class Yoast\WP\SEO\Generated\Cached_Container
Most complex function WPSEO_Option_Titles::validate_option()
Classes 694
Methods 4,707
Functions 52

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.

Database Tables 5

Options wp_options 4

User Metadata wp_usermeta 1

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "wpseo-dashboard-overview": {
            "title": "Yoast SEO Posts Overview",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wpseo-wincher-dashboard-overview": {
            "title": "Yoast SEO / Wincher: Top Keyphrases",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "post": {
        "wpseo_meta": {
            "title": "Yoast SEO",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "page": {
        "wpseo_meta": {
            "title": "Yoast SEO",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

Roles 2

ID Name
wpseo_managerSEO Manager
wpseo_editorSEO Editor

Capabilities 4

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[09-Aug-2023 03:00:05 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 36
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Yoast SEO Admin Menus and More