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Yoast SEO 25.9

Does Yoast SEO work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-09-09 08:29:30 UTC.

Summary

Pages 15

‹ Test site — WordPress

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Yoast SEO → Integrations

Yoast SEO → Tools

Yoast SEO → Academy

Yoast SEO → Plans

Yoast SEO → Workouts

Yoast SEO → Redirects

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	0.326 s	1.088 s	+0.762 s	3.51 MiB	4.56 MiB	+ 1.05 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.200 s	0.429 s	+0.229 s	3.57 MiB	4.8 MiB	+ 1.23 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.785 s	1.689 s	+0.904 s	6.06 MiB	7.81 MiB	+ 1.75 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.734 s	0.467 s	-0.267 s	3.52 MiB	4.54 MiB	+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.215 s	0.537 s	+0.322 s	3.5 MiB	4.52 MiB	+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.277 s	0.200 s	-0.077 s	3.49 MiB	4.52 MiB	+ 1.03 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.181 s	0.286 s	+0.105 s	3.5 MiB	4.55 MiB	+ 1.05 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.593 s	1.128 s	+0.535 s	6.05 MiB	7.73 MiB	+ 1.68 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.254 s	0.627 s	+0.373 s	3.5 MiB	4.52 MiB	+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.419 s	0.248 s	-0.171 s	3.52 MiB	4.54 MiB	+ 1.01 MiB
/	0.321 s	0.213 s	-0.108 s	3.5 MiB	4.39 MiB	+ 908.18 KiB
Average	0.391 s	0.628 s	+0.237 s	3.98 MiB	5.13 MiB	+ 1.16 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	99.0%	72,965	65,238	1,228
	SVG	0.5%	343	1	56
	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			73,666	65,239	1,290

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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
• wpseo_seen_llm_txt_opt_in_notification
• _yoast_wpseo_introductions

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

[09-Sep-2025 08:29:47 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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