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Yoast SEO 25.2

Does Yoast SEO work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-05-27 08:01:14 UTC.

Summary

Pages 15

‹ Test site — WordPress

Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO → Settings

Yoast SEO → Integrations

Yoast SEO → Tools

Yoast SEO → Academy

Yoast SEO → Upgrades

Yoast SEO → Workouts

Yoast SEO → Redirects

Yoast SEO → Redirects → Settings

Yoast SEO → Support

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Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.331 s	0.605 s	+0.274 s	3.51 MiB	4.52 MiB	+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.193 s	0.320 s	+0.127 s	3.57 MiB	4.72 MiB	+ 1.15 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.785 s	1.420 s	+0.635 s	6.06 MiB	7.64 MiB	+ 1.58 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.877 s	0.599 s	-0.278 s	3.52 MiB	4.44 MiB	+ 935.18 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.195 s	0.273 s	+0.078 s	3.5 MiB	4.42 MiB	+ 939.9 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.254 s	0.289 s	+0.035 s	3.49 MiB	4.42 MiB	+ 949.51 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.245 s	0.226 s	-0.019 s	3.5 MiB	4.51 MiB	+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.601 s	0.916 s	+0.315 s	6.05 MiB	7.62 MiB	+ 1.57 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.297 s	0.392 s	+0.095 s	3.5 MiB	4.42 MiB	+ 936.04 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.198 s	0.231 s	+0.033 s	3.52 MiB	4.46 MiB	+ 963.09 KiB
/	0.299 s	0.197 s	-0.102 s	3.5 MiB	4.36 MiB	+ 876.66 KiB
Average	0.389 s	0.497 s	+0.108 s	3.98 MiB	5.05 MiB	+ 1.07 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	99.1%	69,374	61,029	1,105
	SVG	0.4%	288	1	52
	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			70,020	61,030	1,163

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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 4

• wpseo
• wpseo_social
• wpseo_titles
• yoast_migrations_free

User Metadata wp_usermeta 1

• wp_yoast_notifications

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

[27-May-2025 08:01:31 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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