Report - Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.3.1

Does "Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection" work with WordPress 6.4.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2024-01-30 21:41:45 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	6.4.3
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=ef87357b07
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.669 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	0.250 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	0.213 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	2.417 s
Memory usage	5.55 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	0.385 s	+0.022 s	3.38 MiB	3.47 MiB	+ 92.63 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.223 s	0.226 s	+0.003 s	3.41 MiB	3.49 MiB	+ 89.34 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.027 s	0.600 s	-0.427 s	5.46 MiB	5.59 MiB	+ 129.56 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.707 s	0.471 s	-0.236 s	3.32 MiB	3.4 MiB	+ 72.66 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.217 s	0.209 s	-0.008 s	3.32 MiB	3.38 MiB	+ 64.52 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.324 s	0.309 s	-0.015 s	3.3 MiB	3.38 MiB	+ 84.85 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.204 s	0.203 s	-0.001 s	3.31 MiB	3.4 MiB	+ 89.29 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.669 s	0.614 s	-0.055 s	5.45 MiB	5.58 MiB	+ 129.14 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.309 s	0.308 s	-0.001 s	3.3 MiB	3.37 MiB	+ 72.42 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.265 s	0.729 s	+0.464 s	3.34 MiB	3.41 MiB	+ 75.09 KiB
/	0.303 s	0.196 s	-0.107 s	3.36 MiB	3.36 MiB	+ 6.77 KiB
Average	0.419 s	0.386 s	-0.033 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%	3,560	770	20
	CSS	30.7%	1,817	18	5
	JavaScript	9.1%	539	101	3
	SVG	0.1%	3	0	3
Total			5,919	889	31

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	2,785
Total complexity	774
Median class complexity	35.0
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	Akismet
Most complex function	Akismet::auto_check_comment()

Classes	5
Methods	135
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 5.3.1