Proxy Cache Purge 5.7.0
Does Proxy Cache Purge work with WordPress 6.9.4 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .
Summary
Errors
| 2 | PHP warnings |
| No JavaScript exceptions | |
| All test pages loaded successfully | |
| No resource errors |
Performance
Memory usage: 91.59 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 | 6.9.4 |
|---|---|
| PHP version | 8.1.12 |
| MySQL version | 10.6.10 |
| PHP memory limit | 512M |
Plugin Info
| Last updated | |
|---|---|
| Active installs | 40,000+ |
| WordPress.org page | https://wordpress.org/plugins/varnish-http-purge/ |
| Badges |
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Pages 6
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=522d7dbd57 |
| Aspect | after-activation |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.399 s |
| Memory usage | 3.82 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 | 0.328 s |
| Memory usage | 3.79 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 | 0.306 s |
| Memory usage | 3.79 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Proxy Cache → Check Caching → Header Analysis
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=varnish-check-caching |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item-tab |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.282 s |
| Memory usage | 3.79 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Proxy Cache → Get Cache Warming
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vhp-cache-warming |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.130 s |
| Memory usage | N/A |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Test site – Just another WordPress site
| URL | / |
|---|---|
| Aspect | front-page |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.255 s |
| Memory usage | 4.16 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Benchmark
| URL | Load time | Memory usage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inactive | Active | Change | Inactive | Active | Change | |
| /wp-admin/index.php | 0.476 s | 0.511 s | +0.035 s | 3.78 MiB | 3.88 MiB | + 103.21 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit.php | 0.398 s | 0.335 s | -0.063 s | 3.78 MiB | 3.88 MiB | + 95.4 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php | 0.843 s | 0.891 s | +0.048 s | 6.31 MiB | 6.43 MiB | + 125.01 KiB |
| /wp-admin/upload.php | 0.489 s | 0.471 s | -0.018 s | 3.74 MiB | 3.81 MiB | + 78.07 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-writing.php | 0.348 s | 0.315 s | -0.033 s | 3.71 MiB | 3.79 MiB | + 82.06 KiB |
| /wp-admin/media-new.php | 0.545 s | 0.425 s | -0.120 s | 3.7 MiB | 3.79 MiB | + 90.26 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category | 0.368 s | 0.336 s | -0.032 s | 3.72 MiB | 3.81 MiB | + 100.93 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page | 0.743 s | 0.737 s | -0.006 s | 6.3 MiB | 6.42 MiB | + 122.49 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-discussion.php | 0.384 s | 0.375 s | -0.009 s | 3.71 MiB | 3.79 MiB | + 78.56 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-comments.php | 0.354 s | 0.338 s | -0.016 s | 3.73 MiB | 3.81 MiB | + 78.06 KiB |
| / | 0.305 s | 0.193 s | -0.112 s | 4.11 MiB | 4.16 MiB | + 53.41 KiB |
| Average | 0.478 s | 0.448 s | -0.030 s | 4.24 MiB | 4.32 MiB | + 91.59 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.
| Language | % | Lines of code | Comment lines | Files | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHP | 92.4% | 3,964 | 1,778 | 7 | |
| JSON | 7.1% | 306 | 0 | 3 | |
| CSS | 0.5% | 21 | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 4,291 | 1,781 | 11 | ||
PHP Code Analysis | More results »
| Lines of code | 4,049 |
|---|---|
| Total complexity | 888 |
| Median class complexity | 198.0 |
| Median method complexity | 4.0 |
| Most complex class | VarnishPurger |
| Most complex function | VarnishPurger::purge_post() |
| Classes | 5 |
|---|---|
| Methods | 114 |
| 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 2 lines
[12-Mar-2026 00:11:48 UTC] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /wp-admin/menu-header.php:175) in /wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1531
[12-Mar-2026 00:11:48 UTC] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /wp-admin/menu-header.php:175) in /wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1534