Report - Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 4.2

Does Guard Dog Security & Site Lock work with WordPress 6.8.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-10-11 11:26:56 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: 326.9 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	6.8.3
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-02-25T13:08:00+00:00
Active installs	200+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/folder-auditor/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 9

Guard Dog Security ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=folder-auditor%2Ffolder-auditor.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=ca9c32f9a1
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.608 s
Memory usage	4.16 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Guard Dog

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.296 s
Memory usage	3.9 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Guard Dog → .htaccess

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=htaccess
Aspect	menu-item-tab
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.318 s
Memory usage	4 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Guard Dog → Site Lock

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=security
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.425 s
Memory usage	3.85 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Guard Dog → Site Lock → Dashboard

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=dashboard
Aspect	menu-item-tab
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.326 s
Memory usage	3.91 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Guard Dog → Auditor

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=audit
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.233 s
Memory usage	3.81 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Guard Dog → Scanner

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=scanner
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.254 s
Memory usage	3.96 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Guard Dog → Settings

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=settings
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.230 s
Memory usage	3.87 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.259 s
Memory usage	3.73 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.359 s	0.336 s	-0.023 s	3.51 MiB	3.86 MiB	+ 362.21 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.219 s	0.257 s	+0.038 s	3.57 MiB	3.92 MiB	+ 357.39 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.850 s	0.688 s	-0.162 s	6.06 MiB	6.38 MiB	+ 324.73 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.787 s	0.514 s	-0.273 s	3.52 MiB	3.83 MiB	+ 314.97 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.214 s	0.245 s	+0.031 s	3.5 MiB	3.81 MiB	+ 319.37 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.299 s	0.282 s	-0.017 s	3.49 MiB	3.81 MiB	+ 327.56 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.186 s	0.222 s	+0.036 s	3.5 MiB	3.83 MiB	+ 338.33 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.768 s	0.678 s	-0.090 s	6.05 MiB	6.36 MiB	+ 320.26 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.304 s	0.350 s	+0.046 s	3.5 MiB	3.81 MiB	+ 315.87 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.209 s	0.235 s	+0.026 s	3.52 MiB	3.83 MiB	+ 315.52 KiB
/	0.329 s	0.206 s	-0.123 s	3.43 MiB	3.73 MiB	+ 299.7 KiB
Average	0.411 s	0.365 s	-0.046 s	3.97 MiB	4.29 MiB	+ 326.9 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

HTML

CSS

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	80.9%	13,533	1,917	49
	HTML	10.6%	1,779	27	2
	CSS	8.5%	1,426	62	1
Total			16,738	2,006	52

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	11,754
Total complexity	1,861
Median class complexity	19.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	WPFA_Security_Headers
Most complex function	wpfa_sus_handle_bulk()

Classes	3
Methods	22
Functions	36

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` 6

wpfa_block_new_admins
wpfa_block_user_enumeration
wpfa_cron_token
wpfa_disable_xmlrpc
wpfa_limit_login_attempts
wpfa_never_lock_content

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 4.2