Report - Broken Link Checker 2.4.9

Does Broken Link Checker work with WordPress 7.0.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2026-08-05 09:39:41 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: 357.75 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.036 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment

WordPress version	7.0.2
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-08-13T04:55:00+00:00
Active installs	500,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 6

Broken Link Checker ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=blc_dash
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=broken-link-checker%2Fbroken-link-checker.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=a9f300845f
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.775 s
Memory usage	4.27 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Link Checker

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=blc_dash
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.658 s
Memory usage	4.25 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Link Checker → Local [old]

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=blc_local
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.900 s
Memory usage	4.54 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Link Checker → Get More Free Plugins

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=plugins_cross_sell
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.036 s
Memory usage	4.22 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.300 s
Memory usage	4.44 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/index.php
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.678 s
Memory usage	4.33 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.706 s	0.770 s	+0.064 s	3.93 MiB	4.33 MiB	+ 413.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.585 s	0.584 s	-0.001 s	3.98 MiB	4.32 MiB	+ 346.61 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	2.326 s	2.046 s	-0.280 s	6.56 MiB	6.97 MiB	+ 419.14 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.796 s	0.828 s	+0.032 s	3.89 MiB	4.22 MiB	+ 341.69 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.608 s	0.600 s	-0.008 s	3.86 MiB	4.19 MiB	+ 332.92 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.639 s	1.156 s	+0.517 s	3.85 MiB	4.19 MiB	+ 341.12 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.550 s	0.713 s	+0.163 s	3.86 MiB	4.25 MiB	+ 392.66 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.959 s	1.887 s	-0.072 s	6.55 MiB	6.95 MiB	+ 410.27 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.759 s	0.804 s	+0.045 s	3.86 MiB	4.19 MiB	+ 329.42 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.589 s	0.639 s	+0.050 s	3.89 MiB	4.27 MiB	+ 392.49 KiB
/	0.343 s	0.225 s	-0.118 s	4.23 MiB	4.44 MiB	+ 215.19 KiB
Average	0.896 s	0.932 s	+0.036 s	4.41 MiB	4.75 MiB	+ 357.75 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

PO File

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	49.6%	27,233	14,210	175
	PO File	46.1%	25,299	14,392	30
	JavaScript	2.3%	1,268	247	22
	CSS	1.2%	636	38	2
	XML	0.4%	246	0	2
	SVG	0.3%	190	0	1
	JSON	0.1%	62	0	1
	Sass	0.0%	2	1	1
Total			54,936	28,888	234

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	25,299
Total complexity	4,671
Median class complexity	14.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	wsBrokenLinkChecker
Most complex function	wsBrokenLinkChecker::options_page()

Classes	165
Methods	1,283
Functions	40

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.

Database Tables 4

wp_blc_filters
wp_blc_instances
wp_blc_links
wp_blc_synch

Options `wp_options` 7

blc_activation_enabled
blc_installation_log
blc_settings
wsblc_admin_options
wsblc_frontend_options
wsblc_general_options
wsblc_modules_options

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "blc_dashboard_widget": {
            "title": "Broken Link Checker",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Broken Link Checker 2.4.9