Benchmarks

Plugin footprint 40% from 16 tests

Installer 0% from 1 test

🔺 Critical test (weight: 50) | The install procedure must perform silently

Please fix the following installer errors

Install procedure had errors
- > Deprecated in wp-content/plugins/news-tick-o-matic/news-tick-o-matic.php+57
Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; NewsTickOMatic has a deprecated constructor

Server metrics [RAM: ▼1.85MB] [CPU: ▼55.44ms] Passed 4 tests

An overview of server-side resources used by News Tick-O-Matic

This plugin does not affect your website's performance

Page	Memory (MB)	CPU Time (ms)
Home /	2.14 ▼1.32	5.44 ▼40.37
Dashboard /wp-admin	2.16 ▼1.15	5.75 ▼44.40
Posts /wp-admin/edit.php	2.16 ▼1.20	6.08 ▼46.81
Add New Post /wp-admin/post-new.php	2.16 ▼3.73	5.07 ▼90.18
Media Library /wp-admin/upload.php	2.16 ▼1.07	6.02 ▼30.82

Server storage [IO: ▲0.09MB] [DB: ▲0.00MB] Passed 3 tests

Filesystem and database footprint

There were no storage issued detected upon installing this plugin

Filesystem: 6 new files

Database: no new tables, 7 new options

New WordPress options
widget_recent-comments
widget_theysaidso_widget
widget_newstickomatic
theysaidso_admin_options
widget_recent-posts
can_compress_scripts
db_upgraded

Browser metrics Passed 4 tests

An overview of browser requirements for News Tick-O-Matic

There were no issues detected in relation to browser resource usage

Page	Nodes	Memory (MB)	Script (ms)	Layout (ms)
Home /	2,876 ▲115	13.44 ▼1.18	8.92 ▲6.50	43.29 ▼6.64
Dashboard /wp-admin	2,198 ▲21	5.69 ▲0.10	87.67 ▲0.37	40.91 ▼2.52
Posts /wp-admin/edit.php	2,097 ▼6	2.01 ▲0.00	33.93 ▼12.17	38.60 ▼4.37
Add New Post /wp-admin/post-new.php	1,526 ▼0	23.56 ▼0.01	683.70 ▲4.54	52.68 ▼13.52
Media Library /wp-admin/upload.php	1,397 ▼0	4.16 ▼0.01	98.23 ▼7.20	43.89 ▼0.98

Uninstaller [IO: ▲0.00MB] [DB: ▲0.00MB] 50% from 4 tests

🔸 Tests weight: 35 | It is important to correctly uninstall your plugin, without leaving any traces

These items require your attention

The plugin did not uninstall gracefully
- > Deprecated in wp-content/plugins/news-tick-o-matic/news-tick-o-matic.php+57
Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; NewsTickOMatic has a deprecated constructor
This plugin does not fully uninstall, leaving 7 options in the database
- can_compress_scripts
- widget_theysaidso_widget
- widget_recent-posts
- theysaidso_admin_options
- widget_newstickomatic
- db_upgraded
- widget_recent-comments

Smoke tests 75% from 4 tests

Server-side errors Passed 1 test

🔹 Test weight: 20 | A smoke test targeting server-side errors

Even though everything seems fine, this is not an exhaustive test

SRP 50% from 2 tests

🔹 Tests weight: 20 | The single-responsibility principle: PHP files have to remain inert when accessed directly, throwing no errors and performing no actions

Please take a closer look at the following

1× GET requests to PHP files trigger server-side errors or Error 500 responses:
- > PHP Fatal error
  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function add_action() in wp-content/plugins/news-tick-o-matic/news-tick-o-matic.php:43

User-side errors Passed 1 test

🔹 Test weight: 20 | Just a short smoke test targeting errors on the browser (console and network errors and warnings)

There were no browser issues found

Optimizations

Plugin configuration 93% from 29 tests

readme.txt 88% from 16 tests

The readme.txt file is important because it is parsed by WordPress.org for the public listing of your plugin

Please fix the following attributes:

Screenshots: Screenshot #1 (News Tick-O-Matic, frozen in news ticking action.) image not found
Tags: There are too many tags (12 tag instead of maximum 10)

You can take inspiration from this readme.txt

news-tick-o-matic/news-tick-o-matic.php Passed 13 tests

The main PHP file in "News Tick-O-Matic" ver. 0.2 adds more information about the plugin and also serves as the entry point for this plugin

80 characters long description:

Animated news ticker—display the newest news a smoothly scrolling sidebar.

Code Analysis Passed 3 tests

File types Passed 1 test

🔸 Test weight: 35 | This is an overview of file extensions present in this plugin and a short test that no dangerous files are bundled with this plugin

Good job! No executable or dangerous file extensions detected223 lines of code in 3 files:

Language	Files	Blank lines	Comment lines	Lines of code
PHP	1	32	32	179
CSS	1	1	2	43
JavaScript	1	0	0	1

PHP code Passed 2 tests

This plugin's cyclomatic complexity and code structure detailed below

There are no cyclomatic complexity problems detected for this plugin

Cyclomatic complexity
Average complexity per logical line of code	0.23
Average class complexity	24.00
▷ Minimum class complexity	24.00
▷ Maximum class complexity	24.00
Average method complexity	6.75
▷ Minimum method complexity	1.00
▷ Maximum method complexity	19.00

Code structure
Namespaces	0
Interfaces	0
Traits	0
Classes	1
▷ Abstract classes	0	0.00%
▷ Concrete classes	1	100.00%
▷ Final classes	0	0.00%
Methods	4
▷ Static methods	0	0.00%
▷ Public methods	4	100.00%
▷ Protected methods	0	0.00%
▷ Private methods	0	0.00%
Functions	3
▷ Named functions	3	100.00%
▷ Anonymous functions	0	0.00%
Constants	0
▷ Global constants	0	0.00%
▷ Class constants	0	0.00%
▷ Public constants	0	0.00%

Plugin size Passed 2 tests

Image compression Passed 2 tests

All PNG images should be compressed to minimize bandwidth usage for end users

2 PNG files occupy 0.08MB with 0.05MB in potential savings

Potential savings

Compression of 2 random PNG files using pngquant
File	Size - original	Size - compressed	Savings
screenshot-2.png	40.11KB	11.55KB	▼ 71.20%
screenshot-1.png	37.73KB	10.00KB	▼ 73.49%

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