XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.21
Does "XML Sitemap Generator for Google" work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .
Summary
Errors
| 5 | PHP deprecation warnings |
| No JavaScript exceptions | |
| All test pages loaded successfully | |
| No resource errors |
Performance
Memory usage: 36.17 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 |
|---|---|
| PHP version | 8.1.12 |
| MySQL version | 10.6.10 |
| PHP memory limit | 512M |
Plugin Info
| Last updated | |
|---|---|
| Active installs | 1,000,000+ |
| WordPress.org page | https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/ |
| Badges |
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Pages 3
Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
| URL | /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=google-sitemap-generator%2Fsitemap.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=c796d9d5e4 |
| Aspect | after-activation |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.378 s |
| Memory usage | 3.8 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Settings → XML-Sitemap
| URL | /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=google-sitemap-generator%2Fsitemap.php |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.php |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 1.245 s |
| Memory usage | 6.49 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Test site – Just another WordPress site
| URL | / |
|---|---|
| Aspect | front-page |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.178 s |
| Memory usage | 4.14 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Benchmark
| URL | Load time | Memory usage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inactive | Active | Change | Inactive | Active | Change | |
| /wp-admin/index.php | 0.449 s | 0.353 s | -0.096 s | 3.77 MiB | 3.83 MiB | + 53.98 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit.php | 0.344 s | 0.641 s | +0.297 s | 3.78 MiB | 3.82 MiB | + 41.64 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php | 0.843 s | 0.926 s | +0.083 s | 6.3 MiB | 6.35 MiB | + 47.2 KiB |
| /wp-admin/upload.php | 0.631 s | 0.379 s | -0.252 s | 3.74 MiB | 3.76 MiB | + 22.2 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-writing.php | 0.322 s | 0.307 s | -0.015 s | 3.71 MiB | 3.73 MiB | + 26.2 KiB |
| /wp-admin/media-new.php | 0.511 s | 0.291 s | -0.220 s | 3.7 MiB | 3.73 MiB | + 34.39 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category | 0.454 s | 0.454 s | +0.000 s | 3.71 MiB | 3.76 MiB | + 45.06 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page | 0.653 s | 0.683 s | +0.030 s | 6.29 MiB | 6.34 MiB | + 44.63 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-discussion.php | 0.345 s | 0.370 s | +0.025 s | 3.71 MiB | 3.73 MiB | + 22.7 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-comments.php | 0.307 s | 0.321 s | +0.014 s | 3.73 MiB | 3.75 MiB | + 22.2 KiB |
| / | 0.407 s | 0.201 s | -0.206 s | 4.1 MiB | 4.14 MiB | + 37.71 KiB |
| Average | 0.479 s | 0.448 s | -0.031 s | 4.23 MiB | 4.27 MiB | + 36.17 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.
| Language | % | Lines of code | Comment lines | Files | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PO File | 63.6% | 10,127 | 6,892 | 29 | |
| PHP | 34.9% | 5,552 | 1,970 | 10 | |
| XSLT | 1.0% | 153 | 0 | 1 | |
| JavaScript | 0.6% | 92 | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 15,924 | 8,865 | 41 | ||
PHP Code Analysis | More results »
| Lines of code | 5,569 |
|---|---|
| Total complexity | 1,162 |
| Median class complexity | 21.0 |
| Median method complexity | 2.0 |
| Most complex class | GoogleSitemapGenerator |
| Most complex function | GoogleSitemapGeneratorUI::html_show_options_page() |
| Classes | 13 |
|---|---|
| Methods | 216 |
| Functions | 12 |
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 4
- gsg_indexnow-admin_api_key
- gsg_indexnow-is_valid_api_key
- sm_options
- sm_rewrite_done
PHP Error Log 5 lines
[02-Dec-2025 21:16:47 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Automatic conversion of false to array is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.php on line 443
[02-Dec-2025 21:16:50 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Function WP_Dependencies->add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 21:16:50 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Function WP_Dependencies->add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 21:16:59 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Function WP_Dependencies->add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 21:16:59 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Function WP_Dependencies->add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131