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Yoast SEO 26.4

Does Yoast SEO work with WordPress 6.8.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-11-18 09:19:15 UTC.

Summary

Pages 17

‹ Test site — WordPress

Tools → Yoast Redirects

Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO → Settings

Yoast SEO → Integrations

Yoast SEO → Tools

Yoast SEO → Academy

Yoast SEO → Plans

Yoast SEO → Workouts

Yoast SEO → Redirects

Yoast SEO → Brand Insights

Yoast SEO → Support

Yoast SEO → Upgrade

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Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.305 s	0.851 s	+0.546 s	3.51 MiB	4.59 MiB	+ 1.09 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.184 s	0.371 s	+0.187 s	3.57 MiB	4.89 MiB	+ 1.32 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.739 s	1.615 s	+0.876 s	6.06 MiB	7.84 MiB	+ 1.78 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.698 s	0.429 s	-0.269 s	3.52 MiB	4.57 MiB	+ 1.05 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.183 s	0.314 s	+0.131 s	3.5 MiB	4.55 MiB	+ 1.05 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.255 s	0.222 s	-0.033 s	3.49 MiB	4.55 MiB	+ 1.06 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.171 s	0.263 s	+0.092 s	3.5 MiB	4.58 MiB	+ 1.08 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.578 s	0.949 s	+0.371 s	6.05 MiB	7.75 MiB	+ 1.7 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.263 s	0.387 s	+0.124 s	3.5 MiB	4.55 MiB	+ 1.05 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.183 s	0.562 s	+0.379 s	3.52 MiB	4.57 MiB	+ 1.05 MiB
/	0.280 s	0.201 s	-0.079 s	3.5 MiB	4.4 MiB	+ 922.7 KiB
Average	0.349 s	0.560 s	+0.211 s	3.98 MiB	5.17 MiB	+ 1.19 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.

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	98.9%	73,544	65,560	1,233
	SVG	0.6%	424	1	76
	JSON	0.2%	145	0	3
	XSLT	0.2%	145	0	1
	XML	0.1%	44	0	1
	Markdown	0.0%	24	0	1
Total			74,326	65,561	1,315

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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

• wp_yoast_indexable
• wp_yoast_indexable_hierarchy
• wp_yoast_migrations
• wp_yoast_primary_term
• wp_yoast_seo_links

Options wp_options 5

• wpseo
• wpseo_llmstxt
• wpseo_social
• wpseo_titles
• yoast_migrations_free

User Metadata wp_usermeta 3

• wp_yoast_notifications
• _yoast_wpseo_introductions
• wpseo_seen_llm_txt_opt_in_notification

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_manager	SEO Manager
wpseo_editor	SEO Editor

Capabilities 4

• wpseo_manage_options
• wpseo_bulk_edit
• wpseo_edit_advanced_metadata
• view_site_health_checks

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[18-Nov-2025 09:19:31 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41

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