Report - Honeypot Guard – Silent Anti-Spam 2.1.0

Does "Honeypot Guard – Silent Anti-Spam" work with WordPress 6.9.4 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2026-03-30 06:17:45 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: 64.46 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	6.9.4
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-06-23T17:34:00+00:00
Active installs	200+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/honeypot-guard-silent-anti-spam/
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Pages 6

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=honeypot-guard-silent-anti-spam%2Fopen-honeypot.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=feddfebff2
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.503 s
Memory usage	3.8 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Honeypot Guard

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=honeypot-guard
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.364 s
Memory usage	3.76 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Honeypot Guard → Settings

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=honeypot-guard-settings
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.373 s
Memory usage	4.07 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Honeypot Guard → Blacklists

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=honeypot-guard-blacklist
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.301 s
Memory usage	3.76 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Honeypot Guard → Spam Logs

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=honeypot-guard-logs
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.298 s
Memory usage	3.93 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.186 s
Memory usage	4.15 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.477 s	0.492 s	+0.015 s	3.78 MiB	3.83 MiB	+ 59.72 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.380 s	0.333 s	-0.047 s	3.78 MiB	3.84 MiB	+ 60.8 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.821 s	0.893 s	+0.072 s	6.31 MiB	6.43 MiB	+ 127.39 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.549 s	0.432 s	-0.117 s	3.74 MiB	3.78 MiB	+ 43.29 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.367 s	0.313 s	-0.054 s	3.71 MiB	3.76 MiB	+ 46.66 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.569 s	0.505 s	-0.064 s	3.7 MiB	3.76 MiB	+ 54.85 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.343 s	0.313 s	-0.030 s	3.72 MiB	3.78 MiB	+ 65.52 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.731 s	0.674 s	-0.057 s	6.3 MiB	6.41 MiB	+ 120.88 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.364 s	0.349 s	-0.015 s	3.71 MiB	3.76 MiB	+ 43.16 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.355 s	0.328 s	-0.027 s	3.73 MiB	3.78 MiB	+ 42.66 KiB
/	0.311 s	0.196 s	-0.115 s	4.11 MiB	4.15 MiB	+ 44.13 KiB
Average	0.479 s	0.439 s	-0.040 s	4.24 MiB	4.3 MiB	+ 64.46 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

CSS

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	82.3%	7,689	1,082	6
	CSS	12.2%	1,143	78	1
	JavaScript	5.4%	506	56	1
Total			9,338	1,216	8

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	6,391
Total complexity	680
Median class complexity	338.5
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	HoneypotGuard
Most complex function	HoneypotGuard_Translations::load_translations()

Classes	2
Methods	123
Functions	3

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.

Database Tables 2

wp_honeypot_guard_blacklist
wp_honeypot_guard_logs

Options `wp_options` 3

honeypot_guard_db_version
honeypot_guard_installed_at
honeypot_guard_options

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Honeypot Guard – Silent Anti-Spam 2.1.0