Report - Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.3.6

Does "Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection" work with WordPress 6.7.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-02-11 17:00:13 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: 99.02 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	6.7.2
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/
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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=f82753585a
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.469 s
Memory usage	3.6 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	0.229 s
Memory usage	3.57 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.170 s
Memory usage	3.47 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	1.589 s
Memory usage	5.9 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.321 s	0.306 s	-0.015 s	3.48 MiB	3.59 MiB	+ 114.35 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.191 s	0.192 s	+0.001 s	3.54 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 111.09 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.896 s	0.629 s	-0.267 s	5.93 MiB	6.06 MiB	+ 132.83 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.549 s	0.492 s	-0.057 s	3.5 MiB	3.59 MiB	+ 93.68 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.219 s	0.192 s	-0.027 s	3.47 MiB	3.57 MiB	+ 97.67 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.342 s	0.190 s	-0.152 s	3.46 MiB	3.57 MiB	+ 105.87 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.188 s	0.188 s	+0.000 s	3.48 MiB	3.59 MiB	+ 116.54 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.608 s	0.587 s	-0.021 s	5.92 MiB	6.04 MiB	+ 128.04 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.266 s	0.271 s	+0.005 s	3.47 MiB	3.57 MiB	+ 97.74 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.400 s	0.718 s	+0.318 s	3.49 MiB	3.59 MiB	+ 96.62 KiB
/	0.321 s	0.186 s	-0.135 s	3.47 MiB	3.47 MiB	- 5.21 KiB
Average	0.391 s	0.359 s	-0.032 s	3.93 MiB	4.03 MiB	+ 99.02 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	63.3%	3,979	892	20
	CSS	28.1%	1,764	20	5
	JavaScript	8.6%	539	101	3
	SVG	0.0%	3	0	3
Total			6,285	1,013	31

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	3,191
Total complexity	824
Median class complexity	52.0
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	Akismet
Most complex function	Akismet::auto_check_comment()

Classes	5
Methods	138
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 5.3.6