title: Is Laravel really this slow?
body: <p>I just started using Laravel. I've barely written any code yet, but my pages are taking nearly a second to load!</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/MTPFhcB.png" alt="laravel timings"></p>
  
  <p>This is a bit shocking to me when my framework-less apps and NodeJS apps take ~2ms. What's Laravel doing? This isn't normal behaviour is it? Does it need some fine-tuning?</p>