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Yoast SEO 26.6

Does Yoast SEO work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-12-15 10:56:09 UTC.

Summary

Pages 17

‹ Test site — WordPress

Tools → Yoast Redirects

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 → Support

Yoast SEO → Upgrade

Yoast SEO → AI Brand Insights

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Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.421 s	1.089 s	+0.668 s	3.77 MiB	4.92 MiB	+ 1.15 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.357 s	0.499 s	+0.142 s	3.78 MiB	5.14 MiB	+ 1.36 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.890 s	1.694 s	+0.804 s	6.3 MiB	8.1 MiB	+ 1.79 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.468 s	0.702 s	+0.234 s	3.74 MiB	4.83 MiB	+ 1.1 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.323 s	0.673 s	+0.350 s	3.71 MiB	4.79 MiB	+ 1.08 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.530 s	0.366 s	-0.164 s	3.7 MiB	4.79 MiB	+ 1.09 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.332 s	0.390 s	+0.058 s	3.71 MiB	4.82 MiB	+ 1.11 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.693 s	1.320 s	+0.627 s	6.29 MiB	8.01 MiB	+ 1.72 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.338 s	0.474 s	+0.136 s	3.71 MiB	4.8 MiB	+ 1.09 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.350 s	0.395 s	+0.045 s	3.73 MiB	4.84 MiB	+ 1.11 MiB
/	0.291 s	0.201 s	-0.090 s	4.1 MiB	5.08 MiB	+ 1007.01 KiB
Average	0.454 s	0.709 s	+0.255 s	4.23 MiB	5.47 MiB	+ 1.23 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	99.0%	74,275	66,683	1,274
	SVG	0.6%	425	1	77
	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			75,058	66,684	1,357

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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
• _yoast_wpseo_introductions
• wpseo_seen_llm_txt_opt_in_notification

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

[15-Dec-2025 10:56:29 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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