Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
slug: akismet
WordPress plugin by Automattic · detected on 1211 sites in our index (22.73% 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 5,328 sites — appearing on roughly 22.73% 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 Newspack Scott.
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.
- Newspack Scott2% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 18 sites
- unified2% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 18 sites
- divi2% of Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection sites · 17 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.
- fiveguys.comfive-guys · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- itmwpb.comWPB Splash Theme · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- dissentmagazine.orgdissent-rumors-mobile · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- spectrio.comspectrio · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- wmn.deNewspack Katharine · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- pokemongohub.netnewspaper · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- events.comEvents.com v2 · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- tarhely.euAstra - Sajat child tema · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- kr3m.comLitho Child · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- ticotimes.netnewspaper · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- nationalbreastcancer.orgnbcf-wpml · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- shonenmagazine.comtheme unknown · 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.