Report - RankShield — Ranking & Ad-Spend Attack Protection 2.3.1

Does "RankShield — Ranking & Ad-Spend Attack Protection" work with WordPress 7.0 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2026-06-29 00:03:37 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: 29.29 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.053 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment

WordPress version	7.0
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-06-30T14:42:00+00:00
Active installs	<10
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/rankshield-ranking-ad-spend-attack-protection/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 7

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=9d76be3ca2
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.734 s
Memory usage	3.92 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

RankShield

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rankshield
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.560 s
Memory usage	3.88 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	0.657 s
Memory usage	3.88 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	0.447 s
Memory usage	3.88 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	0.450 s
Memory usage	3.88 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	0.657 s
Memory usage	3.88 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.239 s
Memory usage	4.24 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.585 s	0.555 s	-0.030 s	3.92 MiB	3.96 MiB	+ 37.24 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.462 s	0.456 s	-0.006 s	3.98 MiB	4.02 MiB	+ 36.53 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.991 s	2.006 s	+0.015 s	6.56 MiB	6.6 MiB	+ 40.91 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.667 s	0.658 s	-0.009 s	3.89 MiB	3.91 MiB	+ 19.84 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.483 s	0.486 s	+0.003 s	3.86 MiB	3.88 MiB	+ 23.83 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.529 s	0.569 s	+0.040 s	3.85 MiB	3.88 MiB	+ 32.02 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.446 s	0.919 s	+0.473 s	3.86 MiB	3.9 MiB	+ 37.2 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.651 s	1.513 s	-0.138 s	6.55 MiB	6.58 MiB	+ 36.43 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.663 s	0.916 s	+0.253 s	3.86 MiB	3.88 MiB	+ 20.33 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.487 s	0.529 s	+0.042 s	3.88 MiB	3.9 MiB	+ 19.83 KiB
/	0.266 s	0.211 s	-0.055 s	4.23 MiB	4.24 MiB	+ 18.07 KiB
Average	0.748 s	0.802 s	+0.053 s	4.4 MiB	4.43 MiB	+ 29.29 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

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	77.1%	871	180	5
	JavaScript	16.5%	187	27	3
	CSS	6.4%	72	0	2
Total			1,130	207	10

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	871
Total complexity	284
Median class complexity	71.0
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	RankShield_Defense
Most complex function	RankShield_Defense::matches_rule()

Classes	4
Methods	52
Functions	5

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 1

wp_rankshield_helix

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.