Report - XML Sitemap & Google News 5.2

Does XML Sitemap & Google News work with WordPress 5.1.1 and PHP 7.0.16? A smoke test was performed on 2019-04-29 10:01:52 UTC.

Summary

Errors

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

Performance

Memory usage: 121.7 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.038 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment

WordPress version	5.1.1
PHP version	7.0.16
MySQL version	5.7.17
PHP memory limit	256M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-04-30T19:49:00+00:00
Active installs	100,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/
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Pages 7

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=xml-sitemap-feed%2Fxml-sitemap.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=4f6e142ce7
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.327 s
Memory usage	3.34 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → XML Sitemap

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=xmlsf
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.293 s
Memory usage	3.43 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → XML Sitemap → Taxonomies

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=xmlsf&tab=taxonomies
Aspect	menu-item-tab
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.414 s
Memory usage	3.4 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → XML Sitemap → Advanced

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=xmlsf&tab=advanced
Aspect	menu-item-tab
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.195 s
Memory usage	3.4 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.373 s
Memory usage	3.01 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Add New Post ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/post-new.php
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.397 s
Memory usage	5.08 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Add New Page ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.254 s
Memory usage	5.06 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.269 s	0.273 s	+0.004 s	3.29 MiB	3.38 MiB	+ 91 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.207 s	0.253 s	+0.046 s	3.32 MiB	3.4 MiB	+ 85.84 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.217 s	1.321 s	+0.104 s	4.92 MiB	5.08 MiB	+ 160.38 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.547 s	0.496 s	-0.051 s	3.15 MiB	3.3 MiB	+ 147.57 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.185 s	0.218 s	+0.033 s	3.23 MiB	3.39 MiB	+ 162.02 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.198 s	0.265 s	+0.067 s	3.13 MiB	3.28 MiB	+ 147.74 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.183 s	0.224 s	+0.041 s	3.17 MiB	3.32 MiB	+ 149.38 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.995 s	1.139 s	+0.144 s	4.91 MiB	5.06 MiB	+ 152.7 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.227 s	0.342 s	+0.115 s	3.14 MiB	3.28 MiB	+ 148.03 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.230 s	0.282 s	+0.052 s	3.24 MiB	3.33 MiB	+ 84.29 KiB
/	0.449 s	0.316 s	-0.133 s	3.01 MiB	3.02 MiB	+ 9.72 KiB
Average	0.428 s	0.466 s	+0.038 s	3.5 MiB	3.62 MiB	+ 121.7 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.

Options `wp_options` 10

xmlsf_custom_sitemaps
xmlsf_domains
xmlsf_ping
xmlsf_post_types
xmlsf_robots
xmlsf_sitemaps
xmlsf_taxonomies
xmlsf_taxonomy_settings
xmlsf_urls
xmlsf_version

Meta Boxes

{
    "post": {
        "xmlsf_section": {
            "title": "XML Sitemap",
            "context": "side"
        }
    },
    "page": {
        "xmlsf_section": {
            "title": "XML Sitemap",
            "context": "side"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[29-Apr-2019 10:02:04 UTC] XML Sitemap Feeds version 5.2 installed.

XML Sitemap & Google News 5.2