Report - Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP 5.2.1

Does "Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP" work with WordPress 6.8.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-11-14 08:16:14 UTC.

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: 31.53 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	6.8.3
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-09-04T20:53:00+00:00
Active installs	90,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/headers-security-advanced-hsts-wp/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 4

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=headers-security-advanced-hsts-wp%2Fheaders-security-advanced-hsts-wp.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=f03e4fc104
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.359 s
Memory usage	3.57 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=headers-security-advanced-hsts-wp-plugin
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.314 s
Memory usage	3.56 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.258 s
Memory usage	3.46 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/index.php
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.276 s
Memory usage	3.55 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.630 s	0.323 s	-0.307 s	3.51 MiB	3.55 MiB	+ 46.34 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.230 s	0.208 s	-0.022 s	3.57 MiB	3.62 MiB	+ 46.39 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.831 s	1.192 s	+0.361 s	6.06 MiB	6.11 MiB	+ 47.95 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.676 s	0.650 s	-0.026 s	3.52 MiB	3.55 MiB	+ 27.23 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.248 s	0.227 s	-0.021 s	3.5 MiB	3.53 MiB	+ 31.23 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.401 s	0.270 s	-0.131 s	3.49 MiB	3.53 MiB	+ 39.42 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.210 s	0.213 s	+0.003 s	3.5 MiB	3.55 MiB	+ 50.09 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.132 s	0.850 s	-0.282 s	6.05 MiB	6.09 MiB	+ 43.48 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.346 s	0.313 s	-0.033 s	3.5 MiB	3.53 MiB	+ 27.73 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.486 s	0.222 s	-0.264 s	3.52 MiB	3.55 MiB	+ 27.23 KiB
/	0.312 s	0.474 s	+0.162 s	3.5 MiB	3.46 MiB	- 40.3 KiB
Average	0.500 s	0.449 s	-0.051 s	3.98 MiB	4.01 MiB	+ 31.53 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.

PO File

PHP

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PO File	59.5%	1,114	964	6
	PHP	31.9%	596	27	3
	CSS	3.1%	58	1	2
	SVG	2.6%	48	1	1
	XML	2.2%	41	22	1
	JSON	0.7%	14	0	1
Total			1,871	1,015	14

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	593
Total complexity	56
Median class complexity	0.0
Median method complexity	0.0
Most complex class	—
Most complex function	hsts_plugin_settings_page()

Classes	0
Methods	0
Functions	21

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

hsts_csp
hsts_include_subdomains
hsts_max_age
hsts_pp
hsts_preload
hsts_x_frame_options

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "wpexplorer_dashboard_widget": {
            "title": "Headers Security Advanced &amp; HSTS WP",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP 5.2.1