Report - Akismet Anti-Spam 4.2

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 5.8.1 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2021-09-30 18:56:15 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: 69.42 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	5.8.1
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=b526116dd1
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.730 s
Memory usage	3.1 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	0.225 s
Memory usage	3.07 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.215 s
Memory usage	2.95 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	3.118 s
Memory usage	4.53 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.316 s	0.287 s	-0.029 s	3.08 MiB	3.15 MiB	+ 73.93 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.188 s	0.222 s	+0.034 s	3.11 MiB	3.24 MiB	+ 126.97 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.917 s	1.042 s	+0.125 s	5.27 MiB	5.35 MiB	+ 82.82 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.526 s	0.287 s	-0.239 s	3.03 MiB	3.09 MiB	+ 61.84 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.259 s	0.151 s	-0.108 s	3.02 MiB	3.07 MiB	+ 45.81 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.363 s	0.198 s	-0.165 s	3.01 MiB	3.07 MiB	+ 62.01 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.179 s	0.179 s	+0.000 s	3.04 MiB	3.1 MiB	+ 62.91 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.730 s	0.866 s	+0.136 s	5.26 MiB	5.34 MiB	+ 82.41 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.254 s	0.293 s	+0.039 s	3 MiB	3.06 MiB	+ 62.32 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.250 s	0.256 s	+0.006 s	3.04 MiB	3.11 MiB	+ 64.63 KiB
/	0.321 s	0.264 s	-0.057 s	2.91 MiB	2.95 MiB	+ 37.98 KiB
Average	0.391 s	0.368 s	-0.023 s	3.43 MiB	3.5 MiB	+ 69.42 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	78.2%	3,295	667	19
	CSS	14.9%	629	3	1
	JavaScript	6.9%	290	55	1
Total			4,214	725	21

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	2,644
Total complexity	732
Median class complexity	35.0
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	Akismet
Most complex function	Akismet::auto_check_comment()

Classes	5
Methods	131
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 4.2