Report - WP External Links 2.47

Does WP External Links work with WordPress 5.6 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2020-12-09 02:26:58 UTC.

Summary

Errors

	No PHP errors, warnings or notices
	No JavaScript exceptions
	All test pages loaded successfully
	No resource errors
	Looks good! No problems were detected.

Performance

Memory usage: 331.77 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment

WordPress version	5.6
PHP version	7.4.8
MySQL version	8.0.21
PHP memory limit	256M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-07-12T05:35:00+00:00
Active installs	90,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-external-links/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 8

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-external-links%2Fwp-external-links.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=9c272449d4
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.077 s
Memory usage	3.03 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

External Links

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpel-settings-page
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.407 s
Memory usage	3.48 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

External Links → Internal Links

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpel-settings-page&tab=internal-links
Aspect	menu-item-tab
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.226 s
Memory usage	3.48 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

External Links → Excluded Links

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpel-settings-page&tab=excluded-links
Aspect	menu-item-tab
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.200 s
Memory usage	3.48 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

External Links → Exceptions

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpel-settings-page&tab=exceptions
Aspect	menu-item-tab
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.176 s
Memory usage	3.03 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

External Links → Admin Settings

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpel-settings-page&tab=admin
Aspect	menu-item-tab
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.177 s
Memory usage	3.03 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

External Links → Support

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpel-settings-page&tab=support
Aspect	menu-item-tab
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.191 s
Memory usage	3.06 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.276 s
Memory usage	2.9 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.269 s	0.248 s	-0.021 s	2.79 MiB	3.08 MiB	+ 291.72 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.184 s	0.194 s	+0.010 s	2.83 MiB	3.18 MiB	+ 354.98 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.874 s	0.679 s	-0.195 s	4.93 MiB	5.29 MiB	+ 367.84 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.484 s	0.467 s	-0.017 s	2.67 MiB	3.01 MiB	+ 355.7 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.171 s	0.255 s	+0.084 s	2.68 MiB	3 MiB	+ 323.62 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.258 s	0.186 s	-0.072 s	2.64 MiB	2.99 MiB	+ 355.88 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.186 s	0.189 s	+0.003 s	2.68 MiB	3.03 MiB	+ 355.95 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.088 s	0.951 s	-0.137 s	4.92 MiB	5.28 MiB	+ 363.43 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.318 s	0.278 s	-0.040 s	2.65 MiB	2.99 MiB	+ 356.44 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.228 s	0.218 s	-0.010 s	2.75 MiB	3.03 MiB	+ 290.3 KiB
/	0.306 s	0.222 s	-0.084 s	2.67 MiB	2.9 MiB	+ 233.64 KiB
Average	0.397 s	0.353 s	-0.044 s	3.11 MiB	3.43 MiB	+ 331.77 KiB

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

wpel-admin-settings
wpel-exceptions-settings
wpel-excluded-link-settings
wpel-external-link-settings
wpel-first-install
wpel-internal-link-settings
wpel-version

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

WP External Links 2.47