Report - Honeypot Guard – Silent Anti-Spam 2.2.0

Does "Honeypot Guard – Silent Anti-Spam" work with WordPress 6.9.4 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2026-04-02 00:27:15 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: 65.13 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=a1213db626
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.467 s
Memory usage	3.81 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	0.324 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	0.378 s
Memory usage	4.14 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	0.296 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	0.552 s
Memory usage	3.94 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.269 s
Memory usage	4.13 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.586 s	0.491 s	-0.095 s	3.78 MiB	3.84 MiB	+ 62.64 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.389 s	0.340 s	-0.049 s	3.78 MiB	3.85 MiB	+ 63.73 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.830 s	0.900 s	+0.070 s	6.31 MiB	6.43 MiB	+ 130.31 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.484 s	0.426 s	-0.058 s	3.74 MiB	3.78 MiB	+ 46.21 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.356 s	0.483 s	+0.127 s	3.71 MiB	3.76 MiB	+ 49.58 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.545 s	0.401 s	-0.144 s	3.7 MiB	3.76 MiB	+ 57.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.317 s	0.320 s	+0.003 s	3.72 MiB	3.78 MiB	+ 68.45 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.744 s	0.712 s	-0.032 s	6.3 MiB	6.42 MiB	+ 123.8 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.363 s	0.440 s	+0.077 s	3.71 MiB	3.76 MiB	+ 46.08 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.368 s	0.379 s	+0.011 s	3.73 MiB	3.78 MiB	+ 45.58 KiB
/	0.296 s	0.214 s	-0.082 s	4.11 MiB	4.13 MiB	+ 22.33 KiB
Average	0.480 s	0.464 s	-0.016 s	4.23 MiB	4.3 MiB	+ 65.13 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	82.1%	8,175	1,152	6
	CSS	12.3%	1,223	84	1
	JavaScript	5.6%	561	62	1
Total			9,959	1,298	8

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	6,839
Total complexity	714
Median class complexity	355.5
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	HoneypotGuard
Most complex function	HoneypotGuard_Translations::load_translations()

Classes	2
Methods	130
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 2.2.0