Report - Anti-Spam by CleanTalk 6.62

Does Anti-Spam by CleanTalk work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-08-21 11:08:12 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: 667.39 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	6.8.2
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-02-05T10:44:00+00:00
Active installs	200,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/cleantalk-spam-protect/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 6

Anti-Spam by CleanTalk settings ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=cleantalk
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=cleantalk-spam-protect%2Fcleantalk.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=d6bac8e2f5
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	2.322 s
Memory usage	4.69 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Comments → Find spam comments

URL	/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?page=ct_check_spam
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.212 s
Memory usage	4.34 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Users → Find spam users

URL	/wp-admin/users.php?page=ct_check_users
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.237 s
Memory usage	4.38 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → Anti-Spam by CleanTalk

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=cleantalk
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.347 s
Memory usage	4.39 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.559 s
Memory usage	4.05 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	0.322 s
Memory usage	4.24 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.453 s	0.320 s	-0.133 s	3.51 MiB	4.24 MiB	+ 748.17 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.190 s	0.194 s	+0.004 s	3.57 MiB	4.26 MiB	+ 702.91 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.748 s	0.641 s	-0.107 s	6.06 MiB	6.83 MiB	+ 787.73 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.766 s	0.603 s	-0.163 s	3.52 MiB	4.15 MiB	+ 637.1 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.210 s	0.214 s	+0.004 s	3.5 MiB	4.1 MiB	+ 617.24 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.279 s	0.247 s	-0.032 s	3.49 MiB	4.1 MiB	+ 622.85 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.173 s	0.199 s	+0.026 s	3.5 MiB	4.12 MiB	+ 633.87 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.592 s	0.618 s	+0.026 s	6.05 MiB	6.81 MiB	+ 782.27 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.450 s	0.481 s	+0.031 s	3.5 MiB	4.1 MiB	+ 612.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.193 s	0.298 s	+0.105 s	3.52 MiB	4.15 MiB	+ 640.73 KiB
/	0.283 s	0.277 s	-0.006 s	3.44 MiB	3.98 MiB	+ 555.62 KiB
Average	0.394 s	0.372 s	-0.022 s	3.97 MiB	4.62 MiB	+ 667.39 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

SVG

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	75.4%	38,392	11,960	247
	SVG	22.7%	11,564	0	11
	HTML	1.9%	956	12	7
Total			50,912	11,972	265

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	38,118
Total complexity	8,691
Median class complexity	10.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	Cleantalk\Common\Helper
Most complex function	apbct_is_skip_request()

Classes	223
Methods	1,347
Functions	405

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 9

wp_cleantalk_ac_log
wp_cleantalk_connection_reports
wp_cleantalk_sessions
wp_cleantalk_sfw
wp_cleantalk_sfw_logs
wp_cleantalk_sfw_personal
wp_cleantalk_spamscan_logs
wp_cleantalk_ua_bl
wp_cleantalk_wc_spam_orders

Options `wp_options` 6

cleantalk_adjust_to_env
cleantalk_cron
cleantalk_cron_last_start
cleantalk_data
cleantalk_errors
cleantalk_stats

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "ct_dashboard_statistics_widget": {
            "title": "Anti-Spam by CleanTalk",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Anti-Spam by CleanTalk 6.62