WP Compress – Instant Performance & Speed Optimization 6.60.12

Does "WP Compress – Instant Performance & Speed Optimization" work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
2PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 251.33 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.030 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.9
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 10,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-compress-image-optimizer/
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Pages 3

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=wp-compress-image-optimizer%2Fwp-compress.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=52162ce85c
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 3.933 s
Memory usage 12.4 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → WP Compress

Page screenshot: Settings → WP Compress
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wpcompress
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.281 s
Memory usage 4.57 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.435 s
Memory usage 4.23 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.503 s0.555 s+0.052 s3.77 MiB4.08 MiB+ 317.52 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.380 s0.421 s+0.041 s3.78 MiB4.08 MiB+ 304.59 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.900 s0.870 s-0.030 s6.3 MiB6.71 MiB+ 411.96 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.574 s0.689 s+0.115 s3.74 MiB4.01 MiB+ 280.4 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.523 s0.360 s-0.163 s3.71 MiB3.88 MiB+ 175.79 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.534 s0.590 s+0.056 s3.7 MiB3.86 MiB+ 167.55 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.357 s0.363 s+0.006 s3.71 MiB3.94 MiB+ 229.21 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.756 s0.784 s+0.028 s6.29 MiB6.63 MiB+ 340.44 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.408 s0.621 s+0.213 s3.71 MiB3.88 MiB+ 173.74 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.363 s0.429 s+0.066 s3.73 MiB3.96 MiB+ 229.7 KiB
/0.309 s0.259 s-0.050 s4.1 MiB4.23 MiB+ 133.73 KiB
Average 0.510 s0.540 s+0.030 s4.23 MiB4.48 MiB+ 251.33 KiB

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.

PHP
LESS
JavaScript
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP51.0%38,8605,155142
LESS23.2%17,70124912
JavaScript17.5%13,3533,19241
SVG4.5%3,4684210
Sass1.9%1,476202
CSS0.7%5588023
JSON0.6%47203
HTML0.5%34511
Total 76,233 8,701 434

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 29,900
Total complexity 7,619
Median class complexity 37.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class wps_cdn_rewrite
Most complex function wps_rewriteLogic::replaceImageTagsDo()
Classes 67
Methods 1,072
Functions 16

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.

Options wp_options 7

Capabilities 1

PHP Error Log 2 lines

[03-Dec-2025 14:45:58 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
[03-Dec-2025 14:45:58 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
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide the "WP Compress" Admin Menu