Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 5.1

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: 377.86 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=11da582e01
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.589 s
Memory usage 4.39 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 0.364 s
Memory usage 4.13 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 0.366 s
Memory usage 4.23 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 0.398 s
Memory usage 4.08 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 0.500 s
Memory usage 4.13 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 0.309 s
Memory usage 4.05 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 0.303 s
Memory usage 4.26 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 0.325 s
Memory usage 4.05 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 0.282 s
Memory usage 4.09 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 0.217 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.php0.414 s0.338 s-0.076 s3.77 MiB4.16 MiB+ 396.09 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.337 s0.403 s+0.066 s3.78 MiB4.21 MiB+ 441.6 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.804 s0.898 s+0.094 s6.3 MiB6.71 MiB+ 421.85 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.424 s0.371 s-0.053 s3.74 MiB4.09 MiB+ 362.87 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.456 s0.316 s-0.140 s3.71 MiB4.05 MiB+ 352.3 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.497 s0.518 s+0.021 s3.7 MiB4.05 MiB+ 360.5 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.304 s0.313 s+0.009 s3.71 MiB4.07 MiB+ 370.95 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.659 s0.656 s-0.003 s6.29 MiB6.7 MiB+ 419.28 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.309 s0.334 s+0.025 s3.71 MiB4.05 MiB+ 348.48 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.356 s0.319 s-0.037 s3.73 MiB4.09 MiB+ 370.6 KiB
/0.258 s0.177 s-0.081 s4.1 MiB4.4 MiB+ 311.93 KiB
Average 0.438 s0.422 s-0.016 s4.23 MiB4.6 MiB+ 377.86 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%14,7842,08658
HTML10.0%1,838272
CSS9.7%1,779771
Total 18,401 2,190 61

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 12,588
Total complexity 2,031
Median class complexity 23.0
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class WPFA_Security_Headers
Most complex function wpfa_sus_handle_bulk()
Classes 5
Methods 40
Functions 45

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