Report - WP Popular Posts 5.0.1

Does WordPress Popular Posts work with WordPress 5.3 and PHP 7.2.16? A smoke test was performed on 2019-11-13 15:15:40 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: 205.03 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	5.3
PHP version	7.2.16
MySQL version	8.0.15
PHP memory limit	256M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-02-15T15:10:00+00:00
Active installs	100,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 5

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=wordpress-popular-posts%2Fwordpress-popular-posts.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=ebef84c539
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.554 s
Memory usage	3.73 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → WordPress Popular Posts

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wordpress-popular-posts
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.808 s
Memory usage	4.26 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.222 s
Memory usage	3.46 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/index.php
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.406 s
Memory usage	3.84 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect	new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.738 s
Memory usage	4.23 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.288 s	0.238 s	-0.050 s	3.62 MiB	3.84 MiB	+ 229.23 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.254 s	0.311 s	+0.057 s	3.65 MiB	3.87 MiB	+ 226.02 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.166 s	1.112 s	-0.054 s	5.36 MiB	5.61 MiB	+ 264.8 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.433 s	0.347 s	-0.086 s	3.48 MiB	3.7 MiB	+ 224.59 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.152 s	0.139 s	-0.013 s	3.56 MiB	3.69 MiB	+ 131.52 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.271 s	0.308 s	+0.037 s	3.46 MiB	3.68 MiB	+ 225.13 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.471 s	0.174 s	-0.297 s	3.56 MiB	3.72 MiB	+ 162.04 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.966 s	1.038 s	+0.072 s	5.34 MiB	5.53 MiB	+ 193.98 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.222 s	0.242 s	+0.020 s	3.46 MiB	3.68 MiB	+ 225.45 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.206 s	0.227 s	+0.021 s	3.57 MiB	3.79 MiB	+ 224.92 KiB
/	0.358 s	0.346 s	-0.012 s	3.32 MiB	3.46 MiB	+ 147.65 KiB
Average	0.435 s	0.407 s	-0.028 s	3.85 MiB	4.05 MiB	+ 205.03 KiB

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.

Database Tables 2

wp_popularpostsdata
wp_popularpostssummary

Options `wp_options` 4

widget_wpp
wpp_rand
wpp_settings_config
wpp_ver

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID	Name
wpp	WordPress Popular Posts

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "wpp_trending_dashboard_widget": {
            "title": "Trending now",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

WP Popular Posts 5.0.1