In this performance report we’ll have a look at running Learndash together with BuddyBoss and Elementor. We’re running this on a fairly cheap Hetzner CCX13 server, at the time of writing, the monthly cost were 11,99EUR a month.
LearnDash LMS 4.20.1.1 was tested together with BuddyBoss Platform, BuddyBoss Platform Pro, Elementor and Elementor Pro on a site with 1 users and 15 posts running on PHP 8.3.19, WordPress 6.8.1 and nginx/1.26.3 while using the BuddyBoss Child theme. The test started with 10 concurrent users and increased by 10 users per iteration up to 50 users, with a maximum response time threshold observed at 12734.70 ms.
Environment Details
SpinupWP Environment running on a Hetzner CCX13 server with 2 vcpu’s and 8GB RAM.
| Website: | https://bullseye.wordstress.org |
| WordPress Version: | 6.8.1 |
| PHP Version: | 8.3.19 |
| PHP Memory Limit: | 128M |
| Server: | nginx/1.26.3 |
| Active Plugins: | 6 |
| Total Users: | 1 |
| Total Posts: | 15 |
| Plugin | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|
| LearnDash LMS (Tested) | 4.20.1.1 | Active |
| Action Scheduler | 3.9.2 | Inactive |
| Action Scheduler – Disable Default Queue Runner | 1.0.0 | Inactive |
| Advanced Custom Fields PRO | 6.3.12 | Inactive |
| Aether | 1.0.0 | Inactive |
| BuddyBoss Integration | 2.0.1 | Inactive |
| BuddyBoss Platform | 2.8.41 | Active |
| BuddyBoss Platform Pro | 2.6.70 | Active |
| Change Username | 1.0.2 | Inactive |
| Code Snippets | 3.6.8 | Inactive |
| Connect Matomo | 1.0.30 | Inactive |
| CookieYes | GDPR Cookie Consent | 3.2.10 | Inactive |
| Disable Emails | 1.8.2 | Inactive |
| Elementor | 3.28.3 | Active |
| Elementor Pro | 3.27.2 | Active |
| Email Templates | 1.5.2 | Inactive |
| Essential Addons for Elementor | 6.1.10 | Inactive |
| Essential Addons for Elementor – Pro | 6.0.13 | Inactive |
| Favorites | 2.3.6 | Inactive |
| GitHub Updater | 8.4.2 | Inactive |
| Google Apps Login | 3.5.1 | Inactive |
| Gravity Forms | 2.8.9 | Inactive |
| Gravity Forms User Registration Add-On | 5.3.0 | Inactive |
| H5P | 1.16.0 | Inactive |
| Import Export WordPress Users and WooCommerce Customers | 2.6.3 | Inactive |
| Index WP MySQL For Speed | 1.5.3 | Inactive |
| LearnDash Group User Cleanup | 1.0 | Inactive |
| LearnDash LMS – Achievements | 2.0.2 | Inactive |
| LearnDash LMS – Course Grid | 2.0.10 | Inactive |
| LearnDash LMS – Elementor | 1.0.9.2 | Inactive |
| LearnDash LMS – ProPanel | 2.2.2 | Inactive |
| LearnDash LMS – Restrict Content Pro Integration | 1.1.1 | Inactive |
| LearnDash Licensing & Management | 1.3 | Inactive |
| LearnDash Redis Object Cache | 1.2.0 | Inactive |
| Limit Login Attempts | 1.7.2 | Inactive |
| Limit Login Attempts Reloaded | 2.26.18 | Inactive |
| LiteSpeed Cache | 7.0.1 | Inactive |
| Loco Translate | 2.7.2 | Inactive |
| MEC User Dashboard | 1.4.4 | Inactive |
| MEC Waiting List | 1.3.2 | Inactive |
| Media Library Enable Infinite Scrolling | 0.1.0 | Inactive |
| Modern Events Calendar | 7.17.0 | Inactive |
| Multisite Language Switcher | 2.9.5 | Inactive |
| Nav Menu Roles | 2.1.2 | Inactive |
| Post SMTP | 3.1.4 | Inactive |
| Query Monitor | 3.17.2 | Inactive |
| Rank Math SEO | 1.0.242 | Inactive |
| Rank Math SEO PRO | 3.0.34 | Inactive |
| Redirection | 5.5.2 | Inactive |
| Redis Object Cache | 2.5.4 | Inactive |
| SCA Elementor Widget Usage | 1.0 | Inactive |
| SCA Typecursus | Inactive | |
| SCA User Activity Logger | 1.0 | Inactive |
| Schoolupdate Maatwerk door C7 | 1.0.0 | Inactive |
| Search & Filter – Elementor Extension | 1.3.2 | Inactive |
| Simple add pages or posts | 2.0.0 | Inactive |
| Single Sign-on with Azure Active Directory | 0.7.0 | Inactive |
| SpinupWP | 1.7.1 | Inactive |
| Tin Canny Reporting for LearnDash | 4.1.2.2 | Inactive |
| Uncanny Groups for LearnDash | 6.1.1 | Inactive |
| Uncanny Toolkit Pro for LearnDash | 4.3.1 | Inactive |
| Uncanny Toolkit for LearnDash | 3.7.0.2 | Inactive |
| User Switching | 1.9.2 | Inactive |
| W3 Total Cache | 2.8.8 | Inactive |
| WP BookWidgets | 0.9 | Inactive |
| WooCommerce | 9.8.1 | Inactive |
| WooCommerce Integration for MEC | 1.5.0 | Inactive |
| WordStress | 1.3.5 | Active |
| Name: | BuddyBoss Child |
| Version: | 1.0.1 |
| Author: | BuddyBoss.com |
| Iteration | Users | Req/s | Resp. Time (ms) | PHP Mem (%) | CPU Usage (%) | Load Avg (1m) | DB Queries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iteration 1 | 10 | 3.97 | 2518.26 | 54.69% | 100% | 3.4 | 93 |
| Iteration 2 | 20 | 3.92 | 5104.7 | 54.69% | 100% | 7.27 | 93 |
| Iteration 3 | 30 | 3.89 | 7706.39 | 54.69% | 100% | 9.27 | 93 |
| Iteration 4 | 40 | 3.94 | 10161.2 | 54.69% | 100% | 10.39 | 93 |
| Iteration 5 | 50 | 3.93 | 12734.7 | 54.69% | 100% | 10.15 | 93 |
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