Yoast SEO 20.9

Does Yoast SEO work with WordPress 6.2.2 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: 942.24 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.101 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.2.2
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 15

‹ 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=06f0f0a149
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 2.363 s
Memory usage 4.05 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 0.952 s
Memory usage 4.26 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 0.551 s
Memory usage 3.9 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 0.606 s
Memory usage 3.92 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 0.568 s
Memory usage 3.87 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 0.471 s
Memory usage 4.2 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 0.446 s
Memory usage 3.85 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 0.478 s
Memory usage 4.04 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 0.754 s
Memory usage 3.87 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 0.351 s
Memory usage 3.93 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 0.356 s
Memory usage 3.87 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 0.390 s
Memory usage 3.97 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 0.579 s
Memory usage 3.94 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 0.821 s
Memory usage 6.17 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 0.927 s
Memory usage 6.1 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.265 s0.491 s+0.226 s3.07 MiB3.94 MiB+ 890.84 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.169 s0.278 s+0.109 s3.1 MiB4.14 MiB+ 1.04 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.721 s1.159 s+0.438 s5.02 MiB6.24 MiB+ 1.22 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.645 s0.621 s-0.024 s3.02 MiB3.85 MiB+ 857.41 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.168 s0.172 s+0.004 s3.01 MiB3.84 MiB+ 844.98 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.254 s0.410 s+0.156 s2.99 MiB3.84 MiB+ 869.91 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.178 s0.227 s+0.049 s3.01 MiB3.86 MiB+ 872.87 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.574 s0.817 s+0.243 s5.01 MiB6.1 MiB+ 1.09 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.205 s0.226 s+0.021 s3 MiB3.84 MiB+ 859.02 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.234 s0.215 s-0.019 s3.03 MiB3.86 MiB+ 856.01 KiB
/0.288 s0.200 s-0.088 s2.97 MiB3.84 MiB+ 888.3 KiB
Average 0.336 s0.438 s+0.101 s3.38 MiB4.3 MiB+ 942.24 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%66,09655,940958
SVG0.4%245150
XSLT0.2%14501
XML0.1%4401
JavaScript0.0%1174
Total 66,541 55,948 1,014

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 53,932
Total complexity 13,322
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 689
Methods 4,670
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

[13-Jun-2023 07:58:46 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