Does W3 Total Cache work with WordPress 7.0.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .
| 2 | Unrecognized messages in the PHP error log |
| No JavaScript exceptions | |
| All test pages loaded successfully | |
| No resource errors |
Memory usage: 623.53 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.
| WordPress version | 7.0.2 |
|---|---|
| PHP version | 8.1.12 |
| MySQL version | 10.6.10 |
| PHP memory limit | 512M |
| Last updated | |
|---|---|
| Active installs | 900,000+ |
| WordPress.org page | https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/ |
| Badges |
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| URL | /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=w3-total-cache%2Fw3-total-cache.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=9c3fe3a843 |
| Aspect | after-activation |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 1.309 s |
| Memory usage | 5.12 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_dashboard |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.729 s |
| Memory usage | 5.43 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_feature_showcase |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.660 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_general |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 1.009 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_pgcache |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.689 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_minify |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.646 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_dbcache |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.851 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_objectcache |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.666 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_browsercache |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.660 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_cachegroups |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.703 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_cdn |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.601 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_support |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.582 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_pagespeed |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.721 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_userexperience |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.583 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_install |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.588 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.683 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_about |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.640 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_extensions |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.586 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_setup_guide |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_stats |
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.808 s |
| Memory usage | 4.76 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | / |
|---|---|
| Aspect | front-page |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.255 s |
| Memory usage | 4.41 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
| URL | Load time | Memory usage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inactive | Active | Change | Inactive | Active | Change | |
| /wp-admin/index.php | 0.746 s | 0.699 s | -0.047 s | 3.92 MiB | 4.64 MiB | + 733.43 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit.php | 0.604 s | 0.539 s | -0.065 s | 3.98 MiB | 4.62 MiB | + 652.14 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php | 2.239 s | 1.974 s | -0.265 s | 6.56 MiB | 7.28 MiB | + 736.48 KiB |
| /wp-admin/upload.php | 0.816 s | 1.161 s | +0.345 s | 3.89 MiB | 4.56 MiB | + 683.72 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-writing.php | 0.565 s | 0.632 s | +0.067 s | 3.86 MiB | 4.43 MiB | + 584.21 KiB |
| /wp-admin/media-new.php | 0.681 s | 0.635 s | -0.046 s | 3.85 MiB | 4.44 MiB | + 602.82 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category | 0.568 s | 0.820 s | +0.252 s | 3.86 MiB | 4.48 MiB | + 633.97 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page | 2.010 s | 1.828 s | -0.182 s | 6.55 MiB | 7.27 MiB | + 740.25 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-discussion.php | 0.621 s | 0.650 s | +0.029 s | 3.86 MiB | 4.46 MiB | + 610.39 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-comments.php | 0.558 s | 0.623 s | +0.065 s | 3.88 MiB | 4.56 MiB | + 696.55 KiB |
| / | 0.311 s | 0.247 s | -0.064 s | 4.23 MiB | 4.41 MiB | + 184.89 KiB |
| Average | 0.884 s | 0.892 s | +0.008 s | 4.4 MiB | 5.01 MiB | + 623.53 KiB |
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 | 85.9% | 107,705 | 53,699 | 625 | |
| JavaScript | 10.5% | 13,225 | 1,304 | 40 | |
| CSS | 3.2% | 4,008 | 93 | 19 | |
| Java | 0.2% | 231 | 77 | 1 | |
| Markdown | 0.1% | 111 | 0 | 3 | |
| INI | 0.1% | 84 | 16 | 6 | |
| XML | 0.0% | 57 | 4 | 1 | |
| HTML | 0.0% | 7 | 0 | 1 | |
| SVG | 0.0% | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Total | 125,432 | 55,193 | 700 | ||
| Lines of code | 83,874 |
|---|---|
| Total complexity | 18,594 |
| Median class complexity | 16.0 |
| Median method complexity | 2.0 |
| Most complex class | PgCache_ContentGrabber |
| Most complex function | W3TCL\Minify\JSMinPlus::parseTree() |
| Classes | 537 |
|---|---|
| Methods | 4,740 |
| Functions | 73 |
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.
wp_options 6[17-Jul-2026 20:03:30 UTC] W3 Total Cache environment exception: Edit file <strong>/wp-config.php</strong> and add next lines:<textarea style="height: 100px; width: 100%;">/** Enable W3 Total Cache */
define('WP_CACHE', true); // Added by W3 Total Cache
</textarea><br />
[17-Jul-2026 20:03:30 UTC] W3 Total Cache environment exception: Edit file <strong>/wp-config.php</strong> and add next lines:<textarea style="height: 100px; width: 100%;">/** Enable W3 Total Cache */
define('WP_CACHE', true); // Added by W3 Total Cache
</textarea><br />