Report - Proxy Cache Purge 5.0.2

Does Proxy Cache Purge work with WordPress 5.8 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2021-07-20 23:25:30 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: 52.31 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	5.8
PHP version	7.4.8
MySQL version	8.0.21
PHP memory limit	256M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-05-27T17:13:00+00:00
Active installs	40,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/varnish-http-purge/
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Pages 4

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=varnish-http-purge%2Fvarnish-http-purge.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=297bb731ee
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.279 s
Memory usage	3.1 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Proxy Cache

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=varnish-page
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.150 s
Memory usage	3.06 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Proxy Cache → Check Caching

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=varnish-check-caching
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.139 s
Memory usage	3.06 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.201 s
Memory usage	2.95 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.284 s	0.261 s	-0.023 s	3.08 MiB	3.14 MiB	+ 58.82 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.169 s	0.187 s	+0.018 s	3.11 MiB	3.17 MiB	+ 59.13 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.735 s	0.911 s	+0.176 s	5.27 MiB	5.33 MiB	+ 68.51 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.781 s	0.289 s	-0.492 s	3.03 MiB	3.09 MiB	+ 58 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.301 s	0.241 s	-0.060 s	3.02 MiB	3.06 MiB	+ 41.98 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.234 s	0.257 s	+0.023 s	3.01 MiB	3.06 MiB	+ 58.17 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.155 s	0.169 s	+0.014 s	3.04 MiB	3.1 MiB	+ 59.23 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.759 s	0.660 s	-0.099 s	5.26 MiB	5.32 MiB	+ 64.16 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.287 s	0.398 s	+0.111 s	3 MiB	3.06 MiB	+ 58.48 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.212 s	0.207 s	-0.005 s	3.04 MiB	3.1 MiB	+ 58.09 KiB
/	0.276 s	0.252 s	-0.024 s	2.96 MiB	2.95 MiB	- 9.15 KiB
Average	0.381 s	0.348 s	-0.033 s	3.44 MiB	3.49 MiB	+ 52.31 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

JSON

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	84.0%	1,659	881	6
	JSON	14.9%	294	0	3
	CSS	1.1%	21	3	1
Total			1,974	884	10

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	1,658
Total complexity	440
Median class complexity	107.5
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	VarnishPurger
Most complex function	VarnishDebug::varnish_results()

Classes	4
Methods	66
Functions	2

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` 4

vhp_varnish_debug
vhp_varnish_devmode
vhp_varnish_ip
vhp_varnish_url

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Proxy Cache Purge 5.0.2