Report - Akismet Anti-Spam: Spam Protection 5.2

Does "Akismet Anti-Spam: Spam Protection" work with WordPress 6.3.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2023-08-29 15:46:41 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: 67.41 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	6.3.1
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=44e770e3f9
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.471 s
Memory usage	2.86 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	0.243 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	0.159 s
Memory usage	3.11 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	2.285 s
Memory usage	5.27 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.353 s	0.319 s	-0.034 s	2.82 MiB	2.9 MiB	+ 73.72 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.203 s	0.196 s	-0.007 s	2.85 MiB	2.92 MiB	+ 69.66 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.758 s	0.595 s	-0.163 s	5.21 MiB	5.32 MiB	+ 110.25 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.620 s	0.459 s	-0.161 s	2.77 MiB	2.82 MiB	+ 52.98 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.229 s	0.199 s	-0.030 s	2.76 MiB	2.8 MiB	+ 44.21 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.390 s	0.250 s	-0.140 s	2.74 MiB	2.8 MiB	+ 65.17 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.191 s	0.198 s	+0.007 s	2.76 MiB	2.82 MiB	+ 69.61 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.595 s	0.614 s	+0.019 s	5.21 MiB	5.31 MiB	+ 105.84 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.230 s	0.227 s	-0.003 s	2.75 MiB	2.8 MiB	+ 52.74 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.421 s	0.702 s	+0.281 s	2.78 MiB	2.83 MiB	+ 56.41 KiB
/	0.282 s	0.203 s	-0.079 s	3.13 MiB	3.17 MiB	+ 40.88 KiB
Average	0.388 s	0.360 s	-0.028 s	3.25 MiB	3.32 MiB	+ 67.41 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	70.3%	3,414	717	20
	CSS	18.5%	899	6	3
	JavaScript	11.1%	538	101	3
	SVG	0.0%	2	0	2
Total			4,853	824	28

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	2,725
Total complexity	761
Median class complexity	35.0
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	Akismet
Most complex function	Akismet::auto_check_comment()

Classes	5
Methods	133
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: Spam Protection 5.2