Report - hCaptcha for WP 2.8.0

Does hCaptcha for WordPress work with WordPress 6.2.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2023-05-20 13:47:01 UTC.

Summary

Errors

2	Unrecognized messages in the PHP error log
	No JavaScript exceptions
	All test pages loaded successfully
	No resource errors

Performance

Memory usage: 106.05 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	6.2.2
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-02-08T07:52:00+00:00
Active installs	70,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/hcaptcha-for-forms-and-more/
Badges	Get badge code

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=hcaptcha-for-forms-and-more%2Fhcaptcha.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=8e49024a8d
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.464 s
Memory usage	3.2 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → hCaptcha

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=hcaptcha
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.196 s
Memory usage	3.13 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.250 s
Memory usage	3.13 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.294 s	0.261 s	-0.033 s	3.07 MiB	3.18 MiB	+ 109.83 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.215 s	0.198 s	-0.017 s	3.1 MiB	3.21 MiB	+ 109.2 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.760 s	0.912 s	+0.152 s	5.02 MiB	5.13 MiB	+ 108.7 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.547 s	0.315 s	-0.232 s	3.02 MiB	3.11 MiB	+ 92.42 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.175 s	0.139 s	-0.036 s	3.01 MiB	3.09 MiB	+ 79.18 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.379 s	0.327 s	-0.052 s	2.99 MiB	3.09 MiB	+ 103.88 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.190 s	0.217 s	+0.027 s	3.01 MiB	3.11 MiB	+ 109.78 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.608 s	0.597 s	-0.011 s	5.01 MiB	5.12 MiB	+ 104.28 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.209 s	0.222 s	+0.013 s	3 MiB	3.09 MiB	+ 92.91 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.213 s	0.206 s	-0.007 s	3.03 MiB	3.12 MiB	+ 92.41 KiB
/	0.311 s	0.213 s	-0.098 s	2.97 MiB	3.13 MiB	+ 163.91 KiB
Average	0.355 s	0.328 s	-0.027 s	3.38 MiB	3.49 MiB	+ 106.05 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

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	86.5%	5,483	3,828	77
	JavaScript	5.7%	363	51	12
	CSS	5.3%	333	5	3
	PO File	2.2%	140	52	1
	SVG	0.2%	10	0	4
	HTML	0.1%	9	0	1
Total			6,338	3,936	98

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	5,500
Total complexity	827
Median class complexity	6.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	HCaptcha\Settings\Abstracts\SettingsBase
Most complex function	HCaptcha\Main::load_modules()

Classes	73
Methods	397
Functions	15

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` 2

hcaptcha_settings
hcaptcha_versions

PHP Error Log 2 lines

[20-May-2023 13:47:16 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 2.0.0 started.
[20-May-2023 13:47:16 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 2.0.0 completed.

hCaptcha for WP 2.8.0