WP Statistics 14.16

Does WP Statistics work with WordPress 6.9.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1Unrecognized messages in the PHP error log
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 509.79 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 version6.9.1
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 600,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/
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Pages 17

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=wp-statistics%2Fwp-statistics.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=844f79426e
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.770 s
Memory usage 5.02 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics

Page screenshot: Statistics
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_overview_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.866 s
Memory usage 4.36 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics → Visitor Insights

Page screenshot: Statistics → Visitor Insights
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_visitors_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.692 s
Memory usage 4.47 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics → Page Insights

Page screenshot: Statistics → Page Insights
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_pages_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.574 s
Memory usage 4.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics → Referrals

Page screenshot: Statistics → Referrals
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_referrals_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.504 s
Memory usage 4.62 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics → Content Analytics

Page screenshot: Statistics → Content Analytics
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_content-analytics_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.607 s
Memory usage 4.44 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics → Author Analytics

Page screenshot: Statistics → Author Analytics
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_author-analytics_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.543 s
Memory usage 4.62 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics → Category Analytics

Page screenshot: Statistics → Category Analytics
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_category-analytics_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.648 s
Memory usage 4.39 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics → Geographic

Page screenshot: Statistics → Geographic
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_geographic_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.553 s
Memory usage 4.39 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics → Devices

Page screenshot: Statistics → Devices
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_devices_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.472 s
Memory usage 4.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics → Add-ons

Page screenshot: Statistics → Add-ons
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_plugins_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 3.778 s
Memory usage 4.6 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics → Privacy Audit

Page screenshot: Statistics → Privacy Audit
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_privacy-audit_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.498 s
Memory usage 4.25 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics → Settings

Page screenshot: Statistics → Settings
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_settings_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.122 s
Memory usage 4.57 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics → Optimization

Page screenshot: Statistics → Optimization
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_optimization_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.490 s
Memory usage 4.33 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Statistics → Help Center

Page screenshot: Statistics → Help Center
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_help-center_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.490 s
Memory usage 4.28 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 0.339 s
Memory usage 4.3 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.170 s
Memory usage 6.69 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.537 s0.511 s-0.026 s3.78 MiB4.37 MiB+ 600.25 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.365 s0.455 s+0.090 s3.79 MiB4.37 MiB+ 599.75 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.882 s1.077 s+0.195 s6.31 MiB6.93 MiB+ 632.72 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.576 s0.555 s-0.021 s3.74 MiB4.23 MiB+ 500.8 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.404 s0.352 s-0.052 s3.72 MiB4.19 MiB+ 484.7 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.598 s0.593 s-0.005 s3.71 MiB4.19 MiB+ 492.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.376 s0.360 s-0.016 s3.72 MiB4.23 MiB+ 519.62 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.694 s0.701 s+0.007 s6.3 MiB6.91 MiB+ 626.73 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.443 s0.425 s-0.018 s3.72 MiB4.19 MiB+ 481.05 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.338 s0.371 s+0.033 s3.74 MiB4.22 MiB+ 496.51 KiB
/0.412 s0.225 s-0.187 s4.12 MiB4.29 MiB+ 172.8 KiB
Average 0.511 s0.511 s+0.000 s4.24 MiB4.74 MiB+ 509.79 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
YAML
SVG
JavaScript
Sass
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP31.1%58,28216,874700
YAML28.5%53,5183,74520
SVG13.8%25,9414389
JavaScript11.7%21,9532,10663
Sass10.4%19,4439378
JSON3.9%7,33902
CSS0.4%781474
HTML0.1%18702
XML0.0%79131
Total 187,523 22,882 1,259

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 43,721
Total complexity 7,540
Median class complexity 8.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class WP_STATISTICS\Helper
Most complex function WP_Statistics\Service\Admin\SiteHealthInfo::getPluginSettings()
Classes 430
Methods 2,604
Functions 26

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 7

Options wp_options 10

User Metadata wp_usermeta 1

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID Name
wp_statistics_widgetStatistics

Meta Boxes

{
    "toplevel_page_wps_overview_page": {
        "wp-statistics-traffic-summary-widget": {
            "title": "Traffic Summary",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "wp-statistics-browsers-widget": {
            "title": "Browser Usage",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "wp-statistics-platforms-widget": {
            "title": "Most Used Operating Systems",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "wp-statistics-devices-widget": {
            "title": "Device Usage Breakdown",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "wp-statistics-models-widget": {
            "title": "Top Device Model",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "wp-statistics-countries-widget": {
            "title": "Top Countries",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "wp-statistics-referring-widget": {
            "title": "Top Referring",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "wp-statistics-about-metabox": {
            "title": "WP Statistics",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "wp-statistics-go-premium-widget": {
            "title": "Go Premium",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "wp-statistics-hits-widget": {
            "title": "Traffic Trend",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wp-statistics-search-widget": {
            "title": "Referrals from Search Engines",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wp-statistics-pages-widget": {
            "title": "Top Pages",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wp-statistics-top-visitors-widget": {
            "title": "Most Active Visitors",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wp-statistics-recent-widget": {
            "title": "Latest Visitors",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wp-statistics-useronline-widget": {
            "title": "Currently Online",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wp-statistics-hitsmap-widget": {
            "title": "Global Visitor Distribution",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "dashboard": {
        "wp-statistics-quickstats-widget": {
            "title": "Traffic Overview",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wp-statistics-hits-widget": {
            "title": "Traffic Trend",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wp-statistics-search-widget": {
            "title": "Referrals from Search Engines",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wp-statistics-pages-widget": {
            "title": "Top Pages",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wp-statistics-top-visitors-widget": {
            "title": "Most Active Visitors",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wp-statistics-recent-widget": {
            "title": "Latest Visitors",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wp-statistics-useronline-widget": {
            "title": "Currently Online",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wp-statistics-hitsmap-widget": {
            "title": "Global Visitor Distribution",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wp-statistics-browsers-widget": {
            "title": "Browser Usage",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "wp-statistics-platforms-widget": {
            "title": "Most Used Operating Systems",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "wp-statistics-devices-widget": {
            "title": "Device Usage Breakdown",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "wp-statistics-models-widget": {
            "title": "Top Device Model",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "wp-statistics-countries-widget": {
            "title": "Top Countries",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "wp-statistics-referring-widget": {
            "title": "Top Referring",
            "context": "side"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[03-Feb-2026 19:10:58 UTC] [WP STATISTICS] [INFO]: Failed to initialize GeoIP reader: The file "/wp-content/uploads/wp-statistics/GeoLite2-City.mmdb" does not exist or is not readable.
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide WP Statistics Admin Menus and More