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Code Review | Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA

WordPress plugin Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA scored89%from 54 tests.

About plugin

  • Plugin page: cookie-notice
  • Plugin version: 2.4.13
  • PHP compatiblity: 7.4+
  • PHP version: 7.4.16
  • WordPress compatibility: 4.9.6-6.4.1
  • WordPress version: 6.3.1
  • First release: Jul 8, 2013
  • Latest release: Nov 28, 2023
  • Number of updates: 200
  • Update frequency: every 19.0 days
  • Top authors: dfactory (100%)

Code review

54 tests

User reviews

2963 reviews

Install metrics

1,000,000+ active /26,347,287 total downloads

Benchmarks

Plugin footprint 83% from 16 tests

Installer Passed 1 test

🔺 Critical test (weight: 50) | All plugins must install correctly, without throwing any errors, warnings, or notices
The plugin installed gracefully, with no errors

Server metrics [RAM: ▲1.35MB] [CPU: ▲4.16ms] Passed 4 tests

An overview of server-side resources used by Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA
This plugin has minimal impact on server resources
Page Memory (MB) CPU Time (ms)
Home / 4.81 ▲1.34 48.09 ▲6.92
Dashboard /wp-admin 4.67 ▲1.32 58.44 ▼5.13
Posts /wp-admin/edit.php 4.72 ▲1.36 58.55 ▲10.85
Add New Post /wp-admin/post-new.php 7.27 ▲1.38 94.92 ▲3.99
Media Library /wp-admin/upload.php 4.59 ▲1.36 43.71 ▲11.92
Consent Logs /wp-admin/admin.php?page=cookie-notice&tab=consent-logs 4.51 41.87
Settings /wp-admin/admin.php?page=cookie-notice 4.58 45.46

Server storage [IO: ▲1.85MB] [DB: ▲0.00MB] Passed 3 tests

Analyzing filesystem and database footprints of this plugin
This plugin was installed successfully
Filesystem: 75 new files
Database: no new tables, 6 new options
New WordPress options
can_compress_scripts
widget_recent-comments
theysaidso_admin_options
widget_recent-posts
db_upgraded
widget_theysaidso_widget

Browser metrics Passed 4 tests

A check of browser resources used by Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA
This plugin renders optimally with no browser resource issues detected
Page Nodes Memory (MB) Script (ms) Layout (ms)
Home / 2,928 ▲192 14.33 ▲0.10 1.47 ▼0.18 37.38 ▼7.62
Dashboard /wp-admin 2,333 ▲163 5.70 ▲0.02 99.71 ▲0.13 90.21 ▲47.75
Posts /wp-admin/edit.php 2,175 ▲75 2.14 ▲0.17 41.19 ▲6.44 35.57 ▲2.33
Add New Post /wp-admin/post-new.php 1,581 ▲55 23.43 ▲0.23 672.61 ▲48.29 54.21 ▲6.13
Media Library /wp-admin/upload.php 1,478 ▲81 4.32 ▲0.15 99.39 ▲2.94 44.86 ▲4.48
Consent Logs /wp-admin/admin.php?page=cookie-notice&tab=consent-logs 1,047 2.80 53.27 35.53
Settings /wp-admin/admin.php?page=cookie-notice 2,174 3.36 79.20 44.65

Uninstaller [IO: ▲0.00MB] [DB: ▲0.00MB] 75% from 4 tests

🔸 Tests weight: 35 | The uninstall procedure must remove all plugin files and extra database tables
These items require your attention
  • Zombie WordPress options detected upon uninstall: 6 options
    • widget_recent-posts
    • db_upgraded
    • theysaidso_admin_options
    • widget_recent-comments
    • can_compress_scripts
    • widget_theysaidso_widget

Smoke tests Passed 4 tests

Server-side errors Passed 1 test

🔹 Test weight: 20 | A shallow check that no server-side errors were triggered
The smoke test was a success, however most plugin functionality was not tested

SRP Passed 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
No output text or server-side errors detected on direct access of PHP files

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)
No browser issues were found

Optimizations

Plugin configuration 96% from 29 tests

readme.txt Passed 16 tests

You should put a lot of thought into formatting readme.txt as it is used by WordPress.org to prepare the public listing of your plugin
6 plugin tags: privacy, consent, ccpa, gdpr, compliance...

cookie-notice/cookie-notice.php 92% from 13 tests

The main PHP script in "Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA" version 2.4.13 is automatically included on every request by WordPress
Please make the necessary changes and fix the following:
  • Description: Keep the plugin description shorter than 140 characters (currently 148 characters long)

Code Analysis 97% from 3 tests

File types Passed 1 test

🔸 Test weight: 35 | This is a short overview of programming languages used in this plugin, detecting executable files
Success! There were no dangerous files found in this plugin13,535 lines of code in 59 files:
Language Files Blank lines Comment lines Lines of code
PHP 22 1,313 2,089 6,814
CSS 14 663 109 3,641
JavaScript 16 757 592 2,590
Sass 1 44 26 485
SVG 5 0 0 5
HTML 1 0 1 0

PHP code 50% from 2 tests

Analyzing cyclomatic complexity and code structure
It is recommended to fix the following
  • Please reduce cyclomatic complexity of methods to less than 100 (currently 151)
Cyclomatic complexity
Average complexity per logical line of code 0.56
Average class complexity 51.65
▷ Minimum class complexity 1.00
▷ Maximum class complexity 244.00
Average method complexity 5.82
▷ Minimum method complexity 1.00
▷ Maximum method complexity 151.00
Code structure
Namespaces 0
Interfaces 0
Traits 0
Classes 20
▷ Abstract classes 0 0.00%
▷ Concrete classes 20 100.00%
▷ Final classes 0 0.00%
Methods 210
▷ Static methods 3 1.43%
▷ Public methods 201 95.71%
▷ Protected methods 1 0.48%
▷ Private methods 8 3.81%
Functions 5
▷ Named functions 5 100.00%
▷ Anonymous functions 0 0.00%
Constants 4
▷ Global constants 4 100.00%
▷ Class constants 0 0.00%
▷ Public constants 0 0.00%

Plugin size 50% from 2 tests

Image compression 50% from 2 tests

Using a strong compression for your PNG files is a great way to speed-up your plugin
14 PNG files occupy 0.91MB with 0.57MB in potential savings
Potential savings
Compression of 5 random PNG files using pngquant
File Size - original Size - compressed Savings
img/screen-compliance.png 408.78KB 134.11KB ▼ 67.19%
img/layout-left.png 2.33KB 0.49KB ▼ 79.00%
img/layout-bottom.png 2.35KB 0.47KB ▼ 80.06%
img/screen-notice.png 292.39KB 90.98KB ▼ 68.89%
img/consent-logs.png 180.79KB 142.13KB ▼ 21.39%