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Yoast SEO 26.0

Does Yoast SEO work with WordPress 6.8.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-09-30 19:41:50 UTC.

Summary

Pages 15

‹ Test site — WordPress

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Yoast SEO → Academy

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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	0.361 s	1.055 s	+0.694 s	3.51 MiB	4.56 MiB	+ 1.05 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.212 s	0.411 s	+0.199 s	3.57 MiB	4.83 MiB	+ 1.26 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.856 s	1.699 s	+0.843 s	6.06 MiB	7.81 MiB	+ 1.75 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.799 s	0.484 s	-0.315 s	3.52 MiB	4.54 MiB	+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.233 s	0.529 s	+0.296 s	3.5 MiB	4.52 MiB	+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.292 s	0.239 s	-0.053 s	3.49 MiB	4.52 MiB	+ 1.03 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.205 s	0.292 s	+0.087 s	3.5 MiB	4.55 MiB	+ 1.05 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.762 s	1.166 s	+0.404 s	6.05 MiB	7.72 MiB	+ 1.67 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.334 s	0.622 s	+0.288 s	3.5 MiB	4.52 MiB	+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.460 s	0.279 s	-0.181 s	3.52 MiB	4.54 MiB	+ 1.02 MiB
/	0.328 s	0.207 s	-0.121 s	3.5 MiB	4.39 MiB	+ 908.07 KiB
Average	0.440 s	0.635 s	+0.195 s	3.98 MiB	5.14 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%	72,808	64,837	1,219
	SVG	0.6%	407	1	61
	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			73,573	64,838	1,286

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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

[30-Sep-2025 19:42:08 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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