Report - Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 6.4

Does Guard Dog Security & Site Lock work with WordPress 6.9.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2026-02-09 15:07:14 UTC.

Summary

Errors

1	PHP warnings
1	JavaScript exceptions
	All test pages loaded successfully
	No resource errors

Performance

Memory usage: 411.34 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	6.9.1
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 10

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=d066ba1731
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.562 s
Memory usage	4.43 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	0.353 s
Memory usage	4.18 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	0.353 s
Memory usage	4.28 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	0.400 s
Memory usage	4.13 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	0.463 s
Memory usage	4.18 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	0.290 s
Memory usage	4.09 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	0.295 s
Memory usage	4.49 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Guard Dog → Tools

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=tools
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.286 s
Memory usage	4.09 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	0.310 s
Memory usage	4.2 MiB
JS errors	`[ { "message": "SyntaxError: Unexpected token '}'", "trace": null, "code": null } ]`
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.223 s
Memory usage	4.44 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.385 s	0.452 s	+0.067 s	3.78 MiB	4.19 MiB	+ 426.08 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.333 s	0.306 s	-0.027 s	3.78 MiB	4.24 MiB	+ 471.59 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.779 s	0.971 s	+0.192 s	6.31 MiB	6.76 MiB	+ 468.31 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.405 s	0.377 s	-0.028 s	3.74 MiB	4.12 MiB	+ 392.86 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.479 s	0.296 s	-0.183 s	3.71 MiB	4.09 MiB	+ 382.08 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.498 s	0.337 s	-0.161 s	3.7 MiB	4.08 MiB	+ 390.27 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.307 s	0.280 s	-0.027 s	3.72 MiB	4.11 MiB	+ 400.73 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.691 s	0.623 s	-0.068 s	6.3 MiB	6.75 MiB	+ 465.74 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.316 s	0.334 s	+0.018 s	3.71 MiB	4.09 MiB	+ 386.88 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.334 s	0.382 s	+0.048 s	3.74 MiB	4.13 MiB	+ 400.59 KiB
/	0.259 s	0.171 s	-0.088 s	4.11 MiB	4.44 MiB	+ 339.63 KiB
Average	0.435 s	0.412 s	-0.023 s	4.24 MiB	4.64 MiB	+ 411.34 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	75.5%	17,824	2,428	60
	HTML	12.0%	2,822	27	2
	CSS	9.6%	2,260	109	1
	JavaScript	3.0%	700	77	2
Total			23,606	2,641	65

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	14,577
Total complexity	2,555
Median class complexity	13.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	WPFA_Security_Headers
Most complex function	run_blacklist_checker()

Classes	5
Methods	35
Functions	47

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` 7

wpfa_admin_bar_lock_status_display
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 1 lines

[09-Feb-2026 15:07:42 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined variable $wpfa_cron_disabled in /wp-content/plugins/folder-auditor/includes/views/view-settings.php on line 71

Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 6.4