Report - hCaptcha for WP 3.9.0

Does hCaptcha for WordPress work with WordPress 6.4.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2024-02-05 19:18:20 UTC.

Summary

Errors

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

Performance

Memory usage: 187.05 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	6.4.3
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=d7aff70a82
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.488 s
Memory usage	3.74 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	0.310 s
Memory usage	3.75 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.216 s
Memory usage	3.48 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.371 s	0.332 s	-0.039 s	3.38 MiB	3.57 MiB	+ 195.38 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.219 s	0.210 s	-0.009 s	3.41 MiB	3.6 MiB	+ 194.27 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.034 s	0.614 s	-0.420 s	5.46 MiB	5.65 MiB	+ 199.93 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.715 s	0.500 s	-0.215 s	3.33 MiB	3.5 MiB	+ 178.39 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.248 s	0.203 s	-0.045 s	3.32 MiB	3.49 MiB	+ 171.23 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.319 s	0.285 s	-0.034 s	3.3 MiB	3.48 MiB	+ 189.48 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.218 s	0.204 s	-0.014 s	3.31 MiB	3.51 MiB	+ 195.38 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.625 s	0.593 s	-0.032 s	5.45 MiB	5.64 MiB	+ 195.52 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.283 s	0.317 s	+0.034 s	3.3 MiB	3.48 MiB	+ 180.39 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.234 s	0.236 s	+0.002 s	3.34 MiB	3.51 MiB	+ 178.02 KiB
/	0.297 s	0.212 s	-0.085 s	3.31 MiB	3.48 MiB	+ 179.56 KiB
Average	0.415 s	0.337 s	-0.078 s	3.72 MiB	3.9 MiB	+ 187.05 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

JavaScript

SVG

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	73.4%	11,816	8,370	136
	JavaScript	9.8%	1,572	239	35
	SVG	8.3%	1,330	2	31
	CSS	5.3%	859	7	10
	PO File	3.2%	513	237	2
	HTML	0.0%	5	0	1
Total			16,095	8,855	215

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	11,951
Total complexity	1,776
Median class complexity	7.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	KAGG\Settings\Abstracts\SettingsBase
Most complex function	HCaptcha\Main::load_modules()

Classes	131
Methods	784
Functions	14

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 4 lines

[05-Feb-2024 19:18:39 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 2.0.0 started.
[05-Feb-2024 19:18:39 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 2.0.0 completed.
[05-Feb-2024 19:18:39 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 3.6.0 started.
[05-Feb-2024 19:18:39 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 3.6.0 completed.

hCaptcha for WP 3.9.0