Report - RankShield — Ranking & Ad-Spend Attack Protection 2.7.0

Does "RankShield — Ranking & Ad-Spend Attack Protection" work with WordPress 7.0 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2026-06-30 02:10:58 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: 38.04 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 9

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=770704bdf5
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.632 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	0.707 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	0.639 s
Memory usage	3.89 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	0.644 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	0.839 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	0.634 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	0.616 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	0.804 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	0.266 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	1.066 s	0.691 s	-0.375 s	3.92 MiB	3.97 MiB	+ 42.86 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.540 s	0.503 s	-0.037 s	3.98 MiB	4.02 MiB	+ 42.15 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	2.220 s	1.776 s	-0.444 s	6.56 MiB	6.62 MiB	+ 66.52 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.719 s	0.660 s	-0.059 s	3.89 MiB	3.91 MiB	+ 25.45 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.551 s	0.886 s	+0.335 s	3.86 MiB	3.89 MiB	+ 29.45 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.969 s	0.552 s	-0.417 s	3.85 MiB	3.89 MiB	+ 37.64 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.526 s	0.531 s	+0.005 s	3.86 MiB	3.91 MiB	+ 42.81 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.467 s	1.880 s	+0.413 s	6.55 MiB	6.61 MiB	+ 62.05 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.608 s	0.610 s	+0.002 s	3.86 MiB	3.89 MiB	+ 25.95 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.553 s	0.552 s	-0.001 s	3.88 MiB	3.91 MiB	+ 25.45 KiB
/	0.306 s	0.202 s	-0.104 s	4.23 MiB	4.24 MiB	+ 18.07 KiB
Average	0.866 s	0.804 s	-0.062 s	4.4 MiB	4.44 MiB	+ 38.04 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	83.2%	1,451	283	5
	JavaScript	10.7%	187	27	3
	CSS	6.1%	106	12	2
Total			1,744	322	10

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	1,451
Total complexity	536
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	76
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.