Moodle Admins – Use the Moodle Benchmark plugin to test your Moodle LMS

Moodle LMS is used by more than 350+ million users around the world. There are more than 150+k registered Moodle sites in the registered directory across 240 countries. While there are many users across the world, it is helpful for the Moodle Admins to performs various tests to determine the quality of the Moodle platform.

The Moodle Benchmark plugin helps you to assess your server to determine the quality of your Moodle platform. After the test is completed, the plugin provides you a score which reveals the points which might be affecting your Moodle LMS.

You can download the latest version of the Moodle Benchmark plugin from the official directory here. Once installed, you can access the benchmark report by clicking the ‘Reports’ section of the Site administration page and selecting the ‘Benchmark’ option.

You can start the test by clicking the ‘Start the benchmark’ button. It is recommended to perform the benchmark test several times to get an average.

The benchmark has five test groups with two items in each of them. It will test the Moodle instance’s server speed, processor speed, hard drive speed, database speed, and loading page speed. Each test result will have three columns:

• Time (in seconds) shows how long it takes for your system to complete the test. The lower the number, the better.
• Acceptable limit shows a soft limit of the test. A warning will be displayed if a test result has a value above the limit.
• Critical limit shows the maximum duration of the test. If a test result has a value above this limit, it means that the test has failed.

If any of the test results above do not pass the limit, a warning message will be displayed on the end of the page. The message will point you in the right direction of how to improve the server performance. You can use the results generated by this plugin to check how your Moodle instance is performing on average.

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