Report - Akismet Anti-Spam 4.2.3

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 5.9.3 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2022-04-25 17:37:09 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: 68.94 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	5.9.3
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=82813ce2ab
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.431 s
Memory usage	3.34 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	3.31 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.324 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	1.298 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	0.364 s	0.250 s	-0.114 s	3.37 MiB	3.44 MiB	+ 71.09 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.180 s	0.205 s	+0.025 s	3.4 MiB	3.47 MiB	+ 68.13 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.879 s	1.067 s	+0.188 s	5.68 MiB	5.77 MiB	+ 87.98 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.427 s	0.321 s	-0.106 s	3.25 MiB	3.32 MiB	+ 74.99 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.285 s	0.148 s	-0.137 s	3.24 MiB	3.3 MiB	+ 58.84 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.283 s	0.204 s	-0.079 s	3.23 MiB	3.3 MiB	+ 75.16 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.182 s	0.186 s	+0.004 s	3.27 MiB	3.33 MiB	+ 68.07 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.639 s	0.672 s	+0.033 s	5.68 MiB	5.76 MiB	+ 83.56 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.232 s	0.347 s	+0.115 s	3.22 MiB	3.3 MiB	+ 75.48 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.212 s	0.267 s	+0.055 s	3.27 MiB	3.37 MiB	+ 99.34 KiB
/	0.274 s	0.267 s	-0.007 s	3.4 MiB	3.39 MiB	- 4.3 KiB
Average	0.360 s	0.358 s	-0.002 s	3.73 MiB	3.79 MiB	+ 68.94 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%	3,321	686	19
	CSS	14.8%	629	3	1
	JavaScript	6.8%	290	55	1
Total			4,240	744	21

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	2,668
Total complexity	738
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 4.2.3