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Yoast SEO 25.6

Does Yoast SEO work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-07-29 08:20:49 UTC.

Summary

Pages 15

‹ Test site — WordPress

Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO → Settings

Yoast SEO → Integrations

Yoast SEO → Tools

Yoast SEO → Academy

Yoast SEO → Plans

Yoast SEO → Workouts

Yoast SEO → Redirects

Yoast SEO → Redirects → Settings

Yoast SEO → Support

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Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.391 s	0.771 s	+0.380 s	3.51 MiB	4.55 MiB	+ 1.04 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.236 s	0.440 s	+0.204 s	3.57 MiB	4.75 MiB	+ 1.18 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.926 s	1.774 s	+0.848 s	6.06 MiB	7.8 MiB	+ 1.74 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.648 s	0.847 s	+0.199 s	3.52 MiB	4.53 MiB	+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.262 s	0.320 s	+0.058 s	3.5 MiB	4.51 MiB	+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.310 s	0.296 s	-0.014 s	3.49 MiB	4.51 MiB	+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.235 s	0.288 s	+0.053 s	3.5 MiB	4.54 MiB	+ 1.03 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.679 s	1.303 s	+0.624 s	6.05 MiB	7.72 MiB	+ 1.67 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.327 s	0.871 s	+0.544 s	3.5 MiB	4.51 MiB	+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.244 s	0.269 s	+0.025 s	3.52 MiB	4.53 MiB	+ 1 MiB
/	0.378 s	0.241 s	-0.137 s	3.43 MiB	4.38 MiB	+ 972.75 KiB
Average	0.421 s	0.675 s	+0.253 s	3.97 MiB	5.12 MiB	+ 1.15 MiB

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	99.1%	72,859	64,995	1,225
	SVG	0.4%	288	1	52
	JSON	0.2%	145	0	3
	XSLT	0.2%	145	0	1
	XML	0.1%	44	0	1
	Markdown	0.0%	24	0	1
Total			73,505	64,996	1,283

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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 5

• wp_yoast_indexable
• wp_yoast_indexable_hierarchy
• wp_yoast_migrations
• wp_yoast_primary_term
• wp_yoast_seo_links

Options wp_options 5

• wpseo
• wpseo_llmstxt
• wpseo_social
• wpseo_titles
• yoast_migrations_free

User Metadata wp_usermeta 3

• wp_yoast_notifications
• wpseo_seen_llm_txt_opt_in_notification
• _yoast_wpseo_introductions

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "wpseo-dashboard-overview": {
            "title": "Yoast SEO Posts Overview",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wpseo-wincher-dashboard-overview": {
            "title": "Yoast SEO / Wincher: Top Keyphrases",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "post": {
        "wpseo_meta": {
            "title": "Yoast SEO",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "page": {
        "wpseo_meta": {
            "title": "Yoast SEO",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

Roles 2

ID	Name
wpseo_manager	SEO Manager
wpseo_editor	SEO Editor

Capabilities 4

• wpseo_manage_options
• wpseo_bulk_edit
• wpseo_edit_advanced_metadata
• view_site_health_checks

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[29-Jul-2025 08:21:08 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41

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