Yoast SEO 21.7

Does Yoast SEO work with WordPress 6.4.2 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: 1.02 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.136 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.4.2
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 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=53fc3aba69
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 2.697 s
Memory usage 4.43 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 1.221 s
Memory usage 4.64 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 0.861 s
Memory usage 4.31 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 0.870 s
Memory usage 4.33 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 0.679 s
Memory usage 4.26 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 0.658 s
Memory usage 4.59 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 0.531 s
Memory usage 4.24 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 0.682 s
Memory usage 4.43 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 0.810 s
Memory usage 4.26 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 0.514 s
Memory usage 4.32 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 0.494 s
Memory usage 4.26 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 0.386 s
Memory usage 4.22 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 0.307 s
Memory usage 4.31 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 0.625 s
Memory usage 4.34 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 1.136 s
Memory usage 6.76 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 1.141 s
Memory usage 6.75 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.467 s0.741 s+0.274 s3.38 MiB4.34 MiB+ 978.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.269 s0.403 s+0.134 s3.41 MiB4.53 MiB+ 1.13 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.950 s1.750 s+0.800 s5.46 MiB6.83 MiB+ 1.37 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.692 s0.606 s-0.086 s3.32 MiB4.25 MiB+ 945.26 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.262 s0.351 s+0.089 s3.32 MiB4.23 MiB+ 937.51 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.368 s0.258 s-0.110 s3.29 MiB4.23 MiB+ 957.45 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.225 s0.280 s+0.055 s3.31 MiB4.27 MiB+ 981.57 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.652 s1.152 s+0.500 s5.45 MiB6.75 MiB+ 1.3 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.408 s0.380 s-0.028 s3.3 MiB4.23 MiB+ 946.55 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.279 s0.282 s+0.003 s3.33 MiB4.26 MiB+ 943.51 KiB
/0.368 s0.228 s-0.140 s3.31 MiB4.17 MiB+ 889.2 KiB
Average 0.449 s0.585 s+0.136 s3.72 MiB4.73 MiB+ 1.02 MiB

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%67,66056,182989
SVG0.4%246151
XSLT0.2%14501
XML0.1%4401
Markdown0.0%2401
JavaScript0.0%1174
Total 68,130 56,190 1,047

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 55,178
Total complexity 13,603
Median class complexity 7.0
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class Yoast\WP\SEO\Generated\Cached_Container
Most complex function WPSEO_Option_Titles::validate_option()
Classes 701
Methods 4,724
Functions 51

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

[12-Dec-2023 09:14:10 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