title: Regular curl get request php , why it's very slow?
body: <p>I'm using cURL to make HTTP requests:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ch = curl_init(); 
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "some-site-without-many-photos"); 
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); 
  $output = curl_exec ($ch); 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I need to do this request in loop up to 200 times and get data. I looped for 10 times and it takes more than 25 seconds ... is this normal ? The program is very slow. A few years ago, I did this in C and I remember it's was a lot faster. Any idea make my request faster? Maybe way to get only text from the page? </p>