Report - Akismet Anti-Spam 4.1.9

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 5.7.2 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2021-05-13 01:11:37 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: 65.83 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	5.7.2
PHP version	7.4.8
MySQL version	8.0.21
PHP memory limit	256M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-04-23T22:34:00+00:00
Active installs	6,000,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 4

Akismet Anti-Spam ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=akismet-key-config&view=start
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=akismet%2Fakismet.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=167685eabf
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.523 s
Memory usage	2.85 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → Akismet Anti-Spam

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=akismet-key-config
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.220 s
Memory usage	2.81 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.213 s
Memory usage	2.69 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect	new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.845 s
Memory usage	2.84 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.271 s	0.276 s	+0.005 s	2.82 MiB	2.88 MiB	+ 65.84 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.186 s	0.195 s	+0.009 s	2.86 MiB	2.92 MiB	+ 62.14 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.922 s	0.956 s	+0.034 s	5.02 MiB	5.16 MiB	+ 138.67 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.462 s	0.264 s	-0.198 s	2.7 MiB	2.76 MiB	+ 61.74 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.273 s	0.146 s	-0.127 s	2.71 MiB	2.74 MiB	+ 28.98 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.224 s	0.165 s	-0.059 s	2.67 MiB	2.73 MiB	+ 61.18 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.190 s	0.311 s	+0.121 s	2.77 MiB	2.83 MiB	+ 62.09 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.117 s	0.958 s	-0.159 s	5.01 MiB	5.14 MiB	+ 138.26 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.303 s	0.285 s	-0.018 s	2.67 MiB	2.73 MiB	+ 61.49 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.226 s	0.254 s	+0.028 s	2.78 MiB	2.84 MiB	+ 65.27 KiB
/	0.260 s	0.217 s	-0.043 s	2.71 MiB	2.69 MiB	- 21.54 KiB
Average	0.403 s	0.366 s	-0.037 s	3.16 MiB	3.22 MiB	+ 65.83 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

CSS

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	78.3%	3,085	645	19
	CSS	14.8%	583	3	1
	JavaScript	6.9%	271	46	2
Total			3,939	694	22

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	2,561
Total complexity	721
Median class complexity	35.0
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	Akismet
Most complex function	Akismet::auto_check_comment()

Classes	5
Methods	125
Functions	62

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` 1

widget_akismet_widget

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID	Name
akismet_widget	Akismet Widget

Meta Boxes

{
    "comment": {
        "akismet-status": {
            "title": "Comment History",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Akismet Anti-Spam 4.1.9