Report - Proxy Cache Purge 5.3.0

Does Proxy Cache Purge work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-12-03 03:50:12 UTC.

Summary

Errors

4	PHP deprecation warnings
	No JavaScript exceptions
	All test pages loaded successfully
	No resource errors

Performance

Memory usage: 58.11 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	6.9
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

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=6ba6f57963
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.391 s
Memory usage	3.79 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	0.306 s
Memory usage	3.76 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	0.288 s
Memory usage	3.76 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.207 s
Memory usage	4.16 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.485 s	0.391 s	-0.094 s	3.78 MiB	3.85 MiB	+ 71.79 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.392 s	0.447 s	+0.055 s	3.78 MiB	3.85 MiB	+ 64.1 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.828 s	0.904 s	+0.076 s	6.31 MiB	6.38 MiB	+ 72.58 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.479 s	0.434 s	-0.045 s	3.74 MiB	3.79 MiB	+ 46.7 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.351 s	0.313 s	-0.038 s	3.71 MiB	3.76 MiB	+ 50.69 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.529 s	0.357 s	-0.172 s	3.7 MiB	3.76 MiB	+ 58.88 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.360 s	0.340 s	-0.020 s	3.72 MiB	3.78 MiB	+ 69.55 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.733 s	0.727 s	-0.006 s	6.3 MiB	6.37 MiB	+ 70.07 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.361 s	0.338 s	-0.023 s	3.72 MiB	3.76 MiB	+ 47.19 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.345 s	0.347 s	+0.002 s	3.74 MiB	3.78 MiB	+ 46.69 KiB
/	0.318 s	0.220 s	-0.098 s	4.12 MiB	4.16 MiB	+ 40.93 KiB
Average	0.471 s	0.438 s	-0.033 s	4.24 MiB	4.29 MiB	+ 58.11 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	82.7%	1,736	933	6
	JSON	14.6%	306	0	3
	make	1.7%	35	6	1
	CSS	1.0%	21	3	1
Total			2,098	942	11

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	1,735
Total complexity	467
Median class complexity	114.5
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	VarnishPurger
Most complex function	VarnishPurger::purge_post()

Classes	4
Methods	69
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` 5

vhp_varnish_debug
vhp_varnish_devmode
vhp_varnish_ip
vhp_varnish_max_posts_before_all
vhp_varnish_url

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[03-Dec-2025 03:50:35 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 03:50:35 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 03:50:45 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 03:50:45 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131

Proxy Cache Purge 5.3.0