Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
slug: akismet
WordPress plugin by Automattic · detected on 1221 sites in our index (22.51% of WordPress sites scanned)
The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.
Where Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sits in the WordPress plugin ecosystem
Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection is the #3 most-detected WordPress plugin in our scan index of 5,424 sites, appearing on roughly 22.51% of WordPress sites we've fingerprinted. Most sites running Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection are hosted on Pantheon (43% of identified hosts). The most common companion plugin is Yoast SEO: Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI, present on 63% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites. The most frequent theme is divi.
Every data point here comes from actual scans of public WordPress sites, not vendor case studies or curated showcases. We don't accept submissions; everything you see is detected automatically when a site is scanned through the tool.
Plugins commonly used with Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
From co-occurrence analysis across sites running Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection in our index.
- Yoast SEO: Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI63% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 316 sites
- Jetpack: WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth53% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 263 sites
- Redirection42% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 211 sites
- wpcom38% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 191 sites
- Jetpack Boost: Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS37% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 183 sites
- my-jetpack36% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 178 sites
- Yoast Duplicate Post33% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 167 sites
- Contact Form 730% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 149 sites
Themes commonly running Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
Top themes on sites using this plugin.
- divi2% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 18 sites
- Newspack Scott2% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 18 sites
- unified2% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 18 sites
- Hello Elementor2% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 17 sites
- NBC1% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 11 sites
- newspaper1% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 11 sites
Hosting providers running Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
Limited to sites where we identified the hosting provider.
- Pantheon43% · 39 sites
- WordPress.com25% · 23 sites
- Kinsta18% · 16 sites
- Pressable5% · 5 sites
- Flywheel4% · 4 sites
Sites using Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
Most-recently-scanned sites detected with this plugin.
- authorlindanelson.comWoodmart · host unknown · scanned 2026-08-14
- cardingkeys.isBlocksy · host unknown · scanned 2026-08-11
- nonvbvshop.netDarkNONVBV · host unknown · scanned 2026-08-10
- cardingcashout.ruFlatsome Child · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-30
- etilaatroz.comFoxiz child · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-29
- alhattami3h.comFlatsome · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-25
- agrolalibertad.gob.pedivi · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-08
- sorakaro.comNomina · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-05
- paulhelfrich.comGlowing Amber Pro · host unknown · scanned 2026-06-26
- decorival.comMaxwell · host unknown · scanned 2026-06-25
- fiveguys.comfive-guys · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- itmwpb.comWPB Splash Theme · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
How we detect Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
Five-vector detection: /wp-content/plugins/akismet/ asset paths, /wp-json/ REST API namespaces, HTML signature patterns, sitemap XML comments, and asset-probe HEAD requests against the top-100 popular plugins on wordpress.org. Each detected plugin carries provenance pills showing which sources corroborated it; cross-vector matches indicate high-confidence detections. More on how detection works.
Data comes from real-time scans of public WordPress sites, not vendor case studies or curated showcases. Every claim on this page traces back to a specific detection in our scan corpus, observable via our methodology. Affiliate links are disclosed per the affiliate disclosure.