Report - Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.3

Does "Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection" work with WordPress 6.4.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2023-12-06 17:34:04 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: 82.39 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	6.4.2
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=7dcfb2fd5b
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.423 s
Memory usage	3.43 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	0.273 s
Memory usage	3.38 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.205 s
Memory usage	3.36 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	2.465 s
Memory usage	5.53 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.416 s	0.352 s	-0.064 s	3.38 MiB	3.47 MiB	+ 92.63 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.232 s	0.241 s	+0.009 s	3.41 MiB	3.49 MiB	+ 89.34 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.923 s	0.796 s	-0.127 s	5.46 MiB	5.58 MiB	+ 129.56 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.599 s	0.514 s	-0.085 s	3.32 MiB	3.39 MiB	+ 72.66 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.241 s	0.198 s	-0.043 s	3.32 MiB	3.38 MiB	+ 64.52 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.348 s	0.281 s	-0.067 s	3.29 MiB	3.38 MiB	+ 84.85 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.211 s	0.201 s	-0.010 s	3.31 MiB	3.4 MiB	+ 89.29 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.847 s	0.561 s	-0.286 s	5.45 MiB	5.57 MiB	+ 129.15 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.349 s	0.269 s	-0.080 s	3.3 MiB	3.37 MiB	+ 72.42 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.272 s	0.894 s	+0.622 s	3.34 MiB	3.41 MiB	+ 75.09 KiB
/	0.302 s	0.216 s	-0.086 s	3.36 MiB	3.36 MiB	+ 6.77 KiB
Average	0.431 s	0.411 s	-0.020 s	3.72 MiB	3.8 MiB	+ 82.39 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	60.1%	3,494	750	20
	CSS	30.7%	1,785	18	5
	JavaScript	9.1%	528	100	3
	SVG	0.0%	2	0	2
Total			5,809	868	30

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	2,738
Total complexity	768
Median class complexity	35.0
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	Akismet
Most complex function	Akismet::auto_check_comment()

Classes	5
Methods	134
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 5.3