title: Zappa django response time
body: <p>When deploying a bare-bones Django application using Zappa, I'm finding my TTFB (Time To First Byte) times are between 280-800ms however generally around 700ms. Which is far too long for a website.</p>
  
  <p>Other people seem to be getting much better response times such as "125ms to 500ms ... (probably averaged about 175ms)" (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/44r55j/announcing_djangozappa_serverless_django_on_aws/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/44r55j/announcing_djangozappa_serverless_django_on_aws/</a>).</p>
  
  <p>To reproduce my issue:</p>
  
  <pre><code>pip3 install django-admin
  mkdir test
  cd test
  virtualenv .env
  source .env/bin/activate
  pip3 install django zappa
  django-admin startproject zaptest
  zappa init (and choose all defaults)
  zappa deploy dev
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And go to the URL supplied.</p>
  
  <p>Any advice on how to speed this up would be much appreciated.</p>