Report - RankShield — Ranking & Ad-Spend Attack Protection 2.8.3

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 06:45:14 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: 48.87 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 11

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=d8ce2dec52
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.789 s
Memory usage	3.93 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

RankShield

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rankshield
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.806 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	0.663 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	0.660 s
Memory usage	3.89 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	0.704 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	0.640 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	0.679 s
Memory usage	3.89 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	0.914 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	0.659 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	0.541 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	0.259 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	1.010 s	1.055 s	+0.045 s	3.92 MiB	3.98 MiB	+ 54.37 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	1.069 s	0.562 s	-0.507 s	3.98 MiB	4.03 MiB	+ 53.66 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.840 s	1.981 s	+0.141 s	6.56 MiB	6.63 MiB	+ 78.03 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	1.490 s	0.723 s	-0.767 s	3.89 MiB	3.92 MiB	+ 36.96 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.611 s	0.533 s	-0.078 s	3.86 MiB	3.9 MiB	+ 40.95 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.618 s	1.007 s	+0.389 s	3.85 MiB	3.9 MiB	+ 49.15 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.524 s	0.532 s	+0.008 s	3.86 MiB	3.92 MiB	+ 54.32 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.843 s	1.488 s	-0.355 s	6.55 MiB	6.62 MiB	+ 73.55 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.850 s	0.649 s	-0.201 s	3.86 MiB	3.9 MiB	+ 37.45 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.570 s	0.557 s	-0.013 s	3.88 MiB	3.92 MiB	+ 36.95 KiB
/	0.346 s	0.239 s	-0.107 s	4.23 MiB	4.25 MiB	+ 22.21 KiB
Average	0.979 s	0.848 s	-0.131 s	4.4 MiB	4.45 MiB	+ 48.87 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	82.3%	1,740	359	5
	JavaScript	11.6%	246	35	3
	CSS	6.1%	129	14	2
Total			2,115	408	10

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	1,740
Total complexity	674
Median class complexity	107.5
Median method complexity	4.0
Most complex class	RankShield_Admin
Most complex function	RankShield_Admin::page_seo_roi()

Classes	4
Methods	83
Functions	6

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.