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Yoast SEO 24.9

Does Yoast SEO work with WordPress 6.8 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-04-15 16:26:51 UTC.

Summary

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‹ 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	0.347 s	0.720 s	+0.373 s	3.51 MiB	4.51 MiB	+ 1 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.199 s	0.343 s	+0.144 s	3.57 MiB	4.71 MiB	+ 1.14 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.850 s	1.971 s	+1.121 s	6.06 MiB	7.64 MiB	+ 1.58 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.605 s	0.735 s	+0.130 s	3.52 MiB	4.43 MiB	+ 925.4 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.203 s	0.260 s	+0.057 s	3.5 MiB	4.41 MiB	+ 931.93 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.277 s	0.261 s	-0.016 s	3.49 MiB	4.41 MiB	+ 941.54 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.189 s	0.240 s	+0.051 s	3.5 MiB	4.5 MiB	+ 1019.68 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.082 s	1.347 s	+0.265 s	6.05 MiB	7.63 MiB	+ 1.58 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.285 s	0.298 s	+0.013 s	3.5 MiB	4.41 MiB	+ 931.55 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.403 s	0.220 s	-0.183 s	3.52 MiB	4.45 MiB	+ 954.29 KiB
/	0.343 s	0.219 s	-0.124 s	3.5 MiB	4.35 MiB	+ 868.7 KiB
Average	0.435 s	0.601 s	+0.166 s	3.98 MiB	5.04 MiB	+ 1.06 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%	68,905	60,537	1,093
	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			69,551	60,538	1,151

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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

[15-Apr-2025 16:27:09 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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