Report - RankShield — Ranking & Ad-Spend Attack Protection 2.15.4

Does "RankShield — Ranking & Ad-Spend Attack Protection" work with WordPress 7.0 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2026-07-04 16:43:34 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: 86.46 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	7.0
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-07-04T16:49:00+00:00
Active installs	<10
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/rankshield-ranking-ad-spend-attack-protection/
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Pages 14

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=rankshield-ranking-ad-spend-attack-protection%2Frankshield.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=1360f31bac
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.011 s
Memory usage	3.98 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

RankShield

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rankshield
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.587 s
Memory usage	3.94 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

RankShield → SEO

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rankshield-seo
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.605 s
Memory usage	3.94 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

RankShield → Audience

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rankshield-audience
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.838 s
Memory usage	3.94 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

RankShield → SEO ROI

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rankshield-seo-roi
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.621 s
Memory usage	3.94 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

RankShield → Agents

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rankshield-agents
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.591 s
Memory usage	3.94 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

RankShield → Live Traffic

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rankshield-traffic
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.837 s
Memory usage	3.94 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

RankShield → Ad Protection

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rankshield-ads
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.616 s
Memory usage	3.94 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

RankShield → Speed

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rankshield-speed
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.615 s
Memory usage	3.94 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

RankShield → Plans

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rankshield-plans
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.956 s
Memory usage	3.94 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

RankShield → Edge

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rankshield-edge
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.622 s
Memory usage	3.94 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

RankShield → Connections

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rankshield-connections
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.604 s
Memory usage	3.94 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

RankShield → Settings

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rankshield-settings
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.179 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	0.371 s
Memory usage	4.25 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.678 s	0.654 s	-0.024 s	3.92 MiB	4.02 MiB	+ 99.48 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.508 s	0.499 s	-0.009 s	3.98 MiB	4.08 MiB	+ 98.77 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	2.091 s	1.848 s	-0.243 s	6.56 MiB	6.66 MiB	+ 103.14 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.740 s	0.740 s	+0.000 s	3.89 MiB	3.97 MiB	+ 82.08 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.517 s	0.509 s	-0.008 s	3.86 MiB	3.95 MiB	+ 86.07 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.568 s	1.056 s	+0.488 s	3.85 MiB	3.94 MiB	+ 94.27 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.487 s	0.507 s	+0.020 s	3.86 MiB	3.96 MiB	+ 99.44 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.722 s	1.423 s	-0.299 s	6.55 MiB	6.64 MiB	+ 98.67 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.701 s	0.667 s	-0.034 s	3.86 MiB	3.94 MiB	+ 82.57 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.529 s	0.535 s	+0.006 s	3.88 MiB	3.96 MiB	+ 82.07 KiB
/	0.296 s	0.198 s	-0.098 s	4.23 MiB	4.25 MiB	+ 24.47 KiB
Average	0.803 s	0.785 s	-0.018 s	4.41 MiB	4.49 MiB	+ 86.46 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

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	89.0%	3,925	762	19
	JavaScript	7.1%	312	42	5
	CSS	3.9%	171	15	2
Total			4,408	819	26

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	3,925
Total complexity	1,510
Median class complexity	44.5
Median method complexity	4.0
Most complex class	RankShield_Admin
Most complex function	RankShield_Admin::page_seo_roi()

Classes	18
Methods	234
Functions	7

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_rankshield_helix
wp_rankshield_rucss

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.