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Yoast SEO 26.5

Does Yoast SEO work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-12-02 20:34:52 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	0.906 s	1.498 s	+0.592 s	3.78 MiB	4.92 MiB	+ 1.15 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.573 s	0.555 s	-0.018 s	3.78 MiB	5.11 MiB	+ 1.33 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.782 s	1.797 s	+1.015 s	6.31 MiB	8.08 MiB	+ 1.77 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.484 s	0.518 s	+0.034 s	3.74 MiB	4.83 MiB	+ 1.1 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.333 s	0.741 s	+0.408 s	3.71 MiB	4.8 MiB	+ 1.08 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.530 s	0.344 s	-0.186 s	3.7 MiB	4.78 MiB	+ 1.08 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.313 s	0.384 s	+0.071 s	3.72 MiB	4.82 MiB	+ 1.1 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.885 s	1.435 s	+0.550 s	6.3 MiB	7.99 MiB	+ 1.7 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.742 s	0.814 s	+0.072 s	3.71 MiB	4.8 MiB	+ 1.08 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.429 s	0.517 s	+0.088 s	3.73 MiB	4.84 MiB	+ 1.1 MiB
/	0.273 s	0.192 s	-0.081 s	4.12 MiB	5.09 MiB	+ 999.3 KiB
Average	0.568 s	0.800 s	+0.231 s	4.24 MiB	5.46 MiB	+ 1.22 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%	73,192	65,575	1,238
	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			73,974	65,576	1,320

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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 5 lines

[02-Dec-2025 20:35:13 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
[02-Dec-2025 20:35:50 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 20:35:50 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 20:36:07 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 20:36:07 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131

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