Report - External Links 6.8.1

Does External Links work with WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2026-08-20 10:40:14 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: 3.54 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	7.1
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2017-04-29T20:12:00+00:00
Active installs	30,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/sem-external-links/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 3

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=sem-external-links%2Fsem-external-links.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=72eccb2abb
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.734 s
Memory usage	4.26 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → External Links

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=external-links
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.724 s
Memory usage	4.24 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.269 s
Memory usage	4.61 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	1.427 s	0.626 s	-0.801 s	4.23 MiB	4.24 MiB	+ 10.13 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.575 s	0.540 s	-0.035 s	4.28 MiB	4.29 MiB	+ 10.13 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	2.394 s	1.981 s	-0.413 s	6.78 MiB	6.79 MiB	+ 14.55 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	1.196 s	1.014 s	-0.182 s	4.25 MiB	4.24 MiB	- 7.29 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.702 s	0.545 s	-0.157 s	4.22 MiB	4.22 MiB	- 3.29 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.795 s	0.918 s	+0.123 s	4.21 MiB	4.22 MiB	+ 4.91 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.579 s	0.582 s	+0.003 s	4.22 MiB	4.23 MiB	+ 10.08 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	2.021 s	2.051 s	+0.030 s	6.76 MiB	6.77 MiB	+ 10.08 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.802 s	1.273 s	+0.471 s	4.23 MiB	4.22 MiB	- 10.79 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.578 s	0.559 s	-0.019 s	4.24 MiB	4.24 MiB	- 7.29 KiB
/	0.331 s	0.233 s	-0.098 s	4.6 MiB	4.61 MiB	+ 7.77 KiB
Average	1.036 s	0.938 s	-0.098 s	4.73 MiB	4.73 MiB	+ 3.54 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

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	98.9%	876	473	7
	JSON	0.7%	6	0	1
	CSS	0.5%	4	0	1
Total			886	473	9

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	871
Total complexity	180
Median class complexity	15.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	sem_external_links
Most complex function	sem_external_links::is_external()

Classes	5
Methods	52
Functions	0

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.

Options `wp_options` 1

external_links

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

External Links 6.8.1