Report - Akismet Anti-Spam 4.2.2

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 5.9.3 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2022-04-05 19:52:25 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: 66.36 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.049 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment

WordPress version	5.9.3
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=acc9eb9a42
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.426 s
Memory usage	3.33 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	0.214 s
Memory usage	3.3 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.308 s
Memory usage	3.39 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	1.432 s
Memory usage	5.26 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.363 s	0.391 s	+0.028 s	3.37 MiB	3.44 MiB	+ 68.51 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.189 s	0.195 s	+0.006 s	3.4 MiB	3.46 MiB	+ 65.55 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.840 s	1.398 s	+0.558 s	5.65 MiB	5.74 MiB	+ 85.4 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.345 s	0.360 s	+0.015 s	3.25 MiB	3.32 MiB	+ 72.41 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.233 s	0.139 s	-0.094 s	3.24 MiB	3.3 MiB	+ 56.27 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.282 s	0.196 s	-0.086 s	3.23 MiB	3.3 MiB	+ 72.59 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.183 s	0.177 s	-0.006 s	3.27 MiB	3.33 MiB	+ 65.49 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.745 s	0.736 s	-0.009 s	5.65 MiB	5.73 MiB	+ 80.98 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.218 s	0.337 s	+0.119 s	3.22 MiB	3.29 MiB	+ 72.9 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.214 s	0.262 s	+0.048 s	3.27 MiB	3.36 MiB	+ 96.76 KiB
/	0.280 s	0.242 s	-0.038 s	3.4 MiB	3.39 MiB	- 6.88 KiB
Average	0.354 s	0.403 s	+0.049 s	3.72 MiB	3.79 MiB	+ 66.36 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%	3,314	683	19
	CSS	14.9%	629	3	1
	JavaScript	6.9%	290	55	1
Total			4,233	741	21

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	2,663
Total complexity	737
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 4.2.2