title: Joomla 3.2 seems quite slow: 5-6 seconds per page request, just to get the server started with an answer. Ways to increase response time?
body: <p>So the times you see is an example of typical development. You fire up your server and mysql database, then login to the backend and try to add a simple thing like a menu item.</p>
  
  <p>The times shown are only for the server to start responding, not for the page to actually finish loading. So this is time, passing on the server in the code, executing queries etc. All the JS files and CSS is not part of this measurement.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1ne9n.png" alt="Just to open the login page, 6.5 seconds"> </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/z202J.png" alt="after login to the main administrator page takes over 5.5 seconds"></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7doMq.png" alt="Entering the menu manager, over 6 seconds"></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ekH3m.png" alt="Choosing the mainmenu, 5.6 seconds"></p>
  
  <p>I can keep going. Clicking on "New Menu Item" and Hitting "Save" will take just as long.
  So for a simple thing like adding a menu item the user spends roughly a minute looking at a blank screen (assuming the user knows joomla by heart and makes no wrong clicks and thus never has to go back).</p>
  
  <p><strong>Caching</strong></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://docs.joomla.org/Cache" rel="nofollow noreferrer">So I read about caching</a>. If you enable <code>Page Caching</code> I cannot keep developing because it seems my changes are not getting refreshed, and you really want this feature when you develop.
  The <code>View Caching</code> actually speeds up the backend and the frontend a lot. But you still have to access the page once slowly before it gets cashed, and you have to access it again in the timeframe of the existence of the cash to profit from it. So for me, this means the backend is basically always slow. Unless I try to do something like adding 10 menu items within 15 minutes.</p>
  
  <p>I btw run on a brand new notebook which really should not be the problem.</p>
  
  <p>Is there something I am missing out on? </p>
  
  <p>Is this actually normal?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>I could improve my times to around 2 seconds. The profile shows a lot of red colors though, someone has an idea? The picture is for the view menu manager, main menu menu items.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SuKKJ.png" alt="profile times of joomla 3.2"></p>