Report - Akismet Anti-Spam 5.0.2

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 6.1.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2022-12-01 17:35:25 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: 63.63 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	6.1.1
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

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=73b56feb4b
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.377 s
Memory usage	3.08 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	0.213 s
Memory usage	3.03 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.199 s
Memory usage	2.99 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	1.380 s
Memory usage	5.02 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.337 s	0.314 s	-0.023 s	3.05 MiB	3.12 MiB	+ 73.34 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.220 s	0.407 s	+0.187 s	3.07 MiB	3.14 MiB	+ 69.54 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.876 s	0.976 s	+0.100 s	4.97 MiB	5.05 MiB	+ 90.44 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.707 s	0.284 s	-0.423 s	2.99 MiB	3.04 MiB	+ 52.86 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.172 s	0.171 s	-0.001 s	2.99 MiB	3.03 MiB	+ 38.77 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.371 s	0.248 s	-0.123 s	2.97 MiB	3.03 MiB	+ 65.05 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.196 s	0.206 s	+0.010 s	2.98 MiB	3.05 MiB	+ 69.48 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.709 s	0.664 s	-0.045 s	4.96 MiB	5.04 MiB	+ 86.02 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.244 s	0.254 s	+0.010 s	2.97 MiB	3.03 MiB	+ 52.62 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.209 s	0.225 s	+0.016 s	3 MiB	3.06 MiB	+ 56.76 KiB
/	0.314 s	0.204 s	-0.110 s	2.94 MiB	2.99 MiB	+ 45.09 KiB
Average	0.396 s	0.359 s	-0.037 s	3.35 MiB	3.42 MiB	+ 63.63 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

JavaScript

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	74.5%	3,361	710	19
	CSS	13.9%	629	3	1
	JavaScript	11.6%	522	99	2
Total			4,512	812	22

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	2,698
Total complexity	748
Median class complexity	35.0
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	Akismet
Most complex function	Akismet::auto_check_comment()

Classes	5
Methods	132
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 5.0.2