WebP Express 0.25.9

Does WebP Express work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1PHP warnings
4PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 38.82 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 version6.9
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 300,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/webp-express/
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Pages 4

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=webp-express%2Fwebp-express.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=9475df9923
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.406 s
Memory usage 3.77 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Media → WebP Express

Page screenshot: Media → WebP Express
URL /wp-admin/upload.php?page=webp_express_conversion_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.546 s
Memory usage 3.74 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → WebP Express

Page screenshot: Settings → WebP Express
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=webp_express_settings_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.133 s
Memory usage 4.1 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.203 s
Memory usage 4.13 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.489 s0.402 s-0.087 s3.78 MiB3.82 MiB+ 43.75 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.410 s0.386 s-0.024 s3.78 MiB3.82 MiB+ 43.73 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.875 s0.984 s+0.109 s6.31 MiB6.37 MiB+ 67.84 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.507 s0.488 s-0.019 s3.74 MiB3.76 MiB+ 26.33 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.369 s0.354 s-0.015 s3.71 MiB3.74 MiB+ 30.32 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.585 s0.377 s-0.208 s3.7 MiB3.74 MiB+ 38.52 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.367 s0.555 s+0.188 s3.71 MiB3.76 MiB+ 49.19 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.762 s0.763 s+0.001 s6.3 MiB6.36 MiB+ 63.7 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.373 s0.352 s-0.021 s3.71 MiB3.74 MiB+ 26.82 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.397 s0.362 s-0.035 s3.73 MiB3.76 MiB+ 26.31 KiB
/0.327 s0.212 s-0.115 s4.12 MiB4.13 MiB+ 10.54 KiB
Average 0.496 s0.476 s-0.021 s4.24 MiB4.27 MiB+ 38.82 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
JavaScript
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP79.0%12,0544,182146
JavaScript10.4%1,57940716
Markdown5.9%90405
CSS4.1%630744
SVG0.3%4923
JSON0.2%3401
Total 15,250 4,665 175

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 9,926
Total complexity 2,010
Median class complexity 13.5
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class WebPExpress\Paths
Most complex function WebPExpress\CLI::convert()
Classes 68
Methods 468
Functions 47

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 3

PHP Error Log 5 lines

[02-Dec-2025 21:53:46 UTC] PHP Warning:  mkdir(): File exists in /wp-content/plugins/webp-express/vendor/rosell-dk/htaccess-capability-tester/src/SimpleTestFileLineUpper.php on line 14
[02-Dec-2025 21:53:48 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
[02-Dec-2025 21:53:48 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
[02-Dec-2025 21:53:58 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
[02-Dec-2025 21:53:58 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
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide WebP Express Admin Menus