Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 5.0

Does Guard Dog Security & Site Lock work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

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: 362.65 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 version6.9
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 200+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/folder-auditor/
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Pages 10

Guard Dog Security ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: 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=0aa230c5cf
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.672 s
Memory usage 4.36 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog

Page screenshot: Guard Dog
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.395 s
Memory usage 4.11 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog → .htaccess

Page screenshot: Guard Dog → 
            
            .htaccess
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=htaccess
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.397 s
Memory usage 4.21 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog → Site Lock

Page screenshot: Guard Dog → Site Lock
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=security
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.436 s
Memory usage 4.06 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog → Site Lock → Dashboard

Page screenshot: 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 0.445 s
Memory usage 4.11 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog → Auditor

Page screenshot: Guard Dog → Auditor
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=audit
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.344 s
Memory usage 4.03 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog → Scanner

Page screenshot: Guard Dog → Scanner
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=scanner
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.323 s
Memory usage 4.24 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog → Tools

Page screenshot: Guard Dog → Tools
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=tools
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.311 s
Memory usage 4.03 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog → Settings

Page screenshot: Guard Dog → Settings
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=settings
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.317 s
Memory usage 4.07 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.244 s
Memory usage 4.4 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.427 s0.390 s-0.037 s3.77 MiB4.14 MiB+ 373.84 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.381 s0.329 s-0.052 s3.78 MiB4.19 MiB+ 419.35 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.902 s1.003 s+0.101 s6.3 MiB6.71 MiB+ 419.6 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.473 s0.472 s-0.001 s3.74 MiB4.09 MiB+ 360.62 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.356 s0.328 s-0.028 s3.71 MiB4.03 MiB+ 330.05 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.550 s0.374 s-0.176 s3.7 MiB4.03 MiB+ 338.25 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.332 s0.314 s-0.018 s3.71 MiB4.05 MiB+ 348.7 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.739 s0.882 s+0.143 s6.29 MiB6.7 MiB+ 417.03 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.345 s0.402 s+0.057 s3.71 MiB4.03 MiB+ 326.24 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.338 s0.372 s+0.034 s3.73 MiB4.07 MiB+ 348.35 KiB
/0.289 s0.195 s-0.094 s4.1 MiB4.4 MiB+ 307.13 KiB
Average 0.467 s0.460 s-0.006 s4.23 MiB4.59 MiB+ 362.65 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
PHP80.3%14,5512,02556
HTML10.1%1,838272
CSS9.6%1,739751
Total 18,128 2,127 59

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 12,528
Total complexity 2,016
Median class complexity 28.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class WPFA_Security_Headers
Most complex function wpfa_sus_handle_bulk()
Classes 4
Methods 35
Functions 44

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

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Guard Dog Security & Site Lock Admin Menus