Akismet Anti-Spam

Version: 4.2.3

Version : 4.2.3

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Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to protect you and your site from malicious content.

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Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. Major features in Akismet include: Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam. Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator. URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links. Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user. A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site. PS: You’ll be prompted to get an Akismet.com API key to use it, once activated. Keys are free for personal blogs; paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites.

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  • Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is less than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB. Check FAQ for more.
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  • Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
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  • No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found no PHP error while activating this plugin on our server
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  • No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
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  • Latest PHP 7.4.8 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
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  • Latest WordPress 5.9.3 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
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  • Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
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  • No activation errors WP Hive automated test found no activation error while activating this plugin on our server
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  • No resource errors WP Hive automated test found no resource error/s while trying this plugin on our server
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  • Frequently updated The plugin was updated at least once in the last 90 days
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  • No problems were detected during tests.

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    • The test sites are hosted on Google Cloud VM instances, one site/plugin per instance. The machine type is n1-standard-1. The server is a 8 core CPU with 8GB of RAM.
    • The test sites are hosted on Apache/2 server and they are tested on PHP 7.4.8 & WordPress 5.9.3.
    • The database server is MySQL 8.0.21 and the default PHP memory limit is 256M.
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    About Akismet Anti-Spam

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    Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. Major features in Akismet include: Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam. Each comment has a status history,....

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    Performance

    Memory Usage

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    Page Speed

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    - 0.01s
    /wp-admin/edit-comments.php
    + 0.06s
    /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
    - 0s
    /wp-admin/edit.php
    + 0.03s
    /wp-admin/index.php
    - 0.11s
    /wp-admin/media-new.php
    - 0.08s
    /wp-admin/options-discussion.php
    + 0.12s
    /wp-admin/options-writing.php
    - 0.14s
    /wp-admin/post-new.php
    + 0.19s
    /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
    + 0.03s
    /wp-admin/upload.php
    - 0.11s
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    + 68.94KB
    / (front page)
    - 0.54KB
    /wp-admin/edit-comments.php
    + 12.42KB
    /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
    + 8.51KB
    /wp-admin/edit.php
    + 8.52KB
    /wp-admin/index.php
    + 8.89KB
    /wp-admin/media-new.php
    + 9.4KB
    /wp-admin/options-discussion.php
    + 9.43KB
    /wp-admin/options-writing.php
    + 7.36KB
    /wp-admin/post-new.php
    + 11KB
    /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
    + 10.45KB
    /wp-admin/upload.php
    + 9.37KB
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