Report - RankShield — Ranking & Ad-Spend Attack Protection 2.4.0

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 18:40:14 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: 28.79 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	2026-06-30T14:42:00+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=45d6b49012
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.944 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	0.499 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	0.445 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	0.653 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	0.460 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	0.453 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	0.208 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	0.590 s	0.783 s	+0.193 s	3.92 MiB	3.96 MiB	+ 36.75 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.506 s	0.501 s	-0.005 s	3.98 MiB	4.02 MiB	+ 36.03 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.984 s	1.805 s	-0.179 s	6.56 MiB	6.6 MiB	+ 40.41 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.726 s	0.612 s	-0.114 s	3.89 MiB	3.91 MiB	+ 19.34 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.512 s	0.473 s	-0.039 s	3.86 MiB	3.88 MiB	+ 23.33 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.550 s	0.552 s	+0.002 s	3.85 MiB	3.88 MiB	+ 31.52 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.489 s	0.740 s	+0.251 s	3.86 MiB	3.9 MiB	+ 36.7 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.787 s	1.475 s	-0.312 s	6.55 MiB	6.58 MiB	+ 35.93 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.788 s	0.510 s	-0.278 s	3.86 MiB	3.88 MiB	+ 19.83 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.530 s	0.858 s	+0.328 s	3.88 MiB	3.9 MiB	+ 19.33 KiB
/	0.292 s	0.218 s	-0.074 s	4.23 MiB	4.24 MiB	+ 17.57 KiB
Average	0.796 s	0.775 s	-0.021 s	4.4 MiB	4.43 MiB	+ 28.79 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	80.2%	1,046	208	5
	JavaScript	14.3%	187	27	3
	CSS	5.5%	72	0	2
Total			1,305	235	10

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	1,046
Total complexity	350
Median class complexity	83.5
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	RankShield_Admin
Most complex function	RankShield_Defense::check_request()

Classes	4
Methods	62
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.