Report - Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.7

Does "Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection" work with WordPress 6.9.4 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2026-05-01 00:28:52 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: 131.22 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	6.9.4
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=1b4e964fe6
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.553 s
Memory usage	3.85 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	0.712 s
Memory usage	3.83 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.218 s
Memory usage	4.18 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	1.307 s
Memory usage	6.3 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	1.063 s	0.693 s	-0.370 s	3.78 MiB	3.91 MiB	+ 128.88 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.475 s	0.366 s	-0.109 s	3.79 MiB	3.91 MiB	+ 121.95 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.154 s	1.370 s	+0.216 s	6.31 MiB	6.52 MiB	+ 210.38 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.512 s	0.612 s	+0.100 s	3.74 MiB	3.85 MiB	+ 109.74 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.354 s	0.338 s	-0.016 s	3.71 MiB	3.82 MiB	+ 113.73 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.541 s	0.688 s	+0.147 s	3.7 MiB	3.82 MiB	+ 121.93 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.350 s	0.388 s	+0.038 s	3.72 MiB	3.85 MiB	+ 132.6 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.413 s	0.740 s	-0.673 s	6.3 MiB	6.5 MiB	+ 207.5 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.489 s	0.552 s	+0.063 s	3.71 MiB	3.83 MiB	+ 113.8 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.352 s	0.463 s	+0.111 s	3.73 MiB	3.84 MiB	+ 113.3 KiB
/	0.317 s	0.247 s	-0.070 s	4.11 MiB	4.18 MiB	+ 69.65 KiB
Average	0.638 s	0.587 s	-0.051 s	4.24 MiB	4.36 MiB	+ 131.22 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

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	64.7%	5,095	1,468	29
	CSS	27.8%	2,186	31	5
	JavaScript	7.4%	586	99	3
	SVG	0.1%	5	0	3
Total			7,872	1,598	40

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	4,043
Total complexity	967
Median class complexity	20.0
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	Akismet
Most complex function	Akismet::auto_check_comment()

Classes	11
Methods	184
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 5.7