Report - RankShield — Ranking & Ad-Spend Attack Protection 2.6.1

Does "RankShield — Ranking & Ad-Spend Attack Protection" work with WordPress 7.0 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2026-06-30 01:05:58 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: 31.81 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 8

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=6b0b54701c
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.624 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	0.565 s
Memory usage	3.89 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	0.474 s
Memory usage	3.89 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	0.505 s
Memory usage	3.89 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	0.654 s
Memory usage	3.89 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	0.480 s
Memory usage	3.89 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	0.460 s
Memory usage	3.89 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.252 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	0.684 s	0.813 s	+0.129 s	3.92 MiB	3.96 MiB	+ 40.16 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.539 s	0.513 s	-0.026 s	3.98 MiB	4.02 MiB	+ 39.45 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	2.080 s	1.898 s	-0.182 s	6.56 MiB	6.6 MiB	+ 43.82 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.699 s	0.691 s	-0.008 s	3.89 MiB	3.91 MiB	+ 22.76 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.547 s	0.512 s	-0.035 s	3.86 MiB	3.89 MiB	+ 26.75 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.981 s	0.574 s	-0.407 s	3.85 MiB	3.89 MiB	+ 34.95 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.531 s	0.871 s	+0.340 s	3.86 MiB	3.9 MiB	+ 40.12 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.448 s	1.555 s	+0.107 s	6.55 MiB	6.59 MiB	+ 39.35 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.669 s	0.934 s	+0.265 s	3.86 MiB	3.89 MiB	+ 23.25 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.550 s	0.562 s	+0.012 s	3.88 MiB	3.91 MiB	+ 22.75 KiB
/	0.312 s	0.198 s	-0.114 s	4.23 MiB	4.24 MiB	+ 16.52 KiB
Average	0.822 s	0.829 s	+0.007 s	4.4 MiB	4.44 MiB	+ 31.81 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	82.5%	1,217	255	5
	JavaScript	12.7%	187	27	3
	CSS	4.9%	72	0	2
Total			1,476	282	10

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	1,217
Total complexity	425
Median class complexity	101.5
Median method complexity	4.0
Most complex class	RankShield_Admin
Most complex function	RankShield_Defense::check_request()

Classes	4
Methods	69
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.