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Yoast SEO 25.1

Does Yoast SEO work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-05-13 09:43:32 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	0.343 s	0.773 s	+0.430 s	3.51 MiB	4.52 MiB	+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.205 s	0.495 s	+0.290 s	3.57 MiB	4.72 MiB	+ 1.14 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.787 s	1.583 s	+0.796 s	6.06 MiB	7.64 MiB	+ 1.58 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.617 s	0.597 s	-0.020 s	3.52 MiB	4.44 MiB	+ 933.48 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.206 s	0.239 s	+0.033 s	3.5 MiB	4.42 MiB	+ 938.2 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.256 s	0.333 s	+0.077 s	3.49 MiB	4.42 MiB	+ 947.81 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.250 s	0.235 s	-0.015 s	3.5 MiB	4.51 MiB	+ 1 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.636 s	1.105 s	+0.469 s	6.05 MiB	7.62 MiB	+ 1.57 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.352 s	0.384 s	+0.032 s	3.5 MiB	4.42 MiB	+ 934.34 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.199 s	0.288 s	+0.089 s	3.52 MiB	4.46 MiB	+ 961.39 KiB
/	0.330 s	0.266 s	-0.064 s	3.43 MiB	4.36 MiB	+ 943.73 KiB
Average	0.380 s	0.573 s	+0.192 s	3.97 MiB	5.05 MiB	+ 1.08 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%	69,398	61,030	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			70,044	61,031	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 2

• wp_yoast_notifications
• _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

[13-May-2025 09:43:50 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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