title: Decrease waiting time in a Laravel application
body: <p>I'm developing a PHP application written using the <a href="http://laravel.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Laravel</a> 4.1 framework. So far I only have a few MySQL queries per page, many of them are cached using the <code>Cache</code> class where possible, using a Redis server.</p>
  
  <p>Currently I'm developing locally with an internal (but not <code>localhost</code>) MySQL database, using Apache 2.2.24 and PHP 5.4.17.</p>
  
  <p>Using Chromes Developer Tools, I'm checking the <strong>Network</strong> tab to see how long the page is taking to load etc, but I'm seeing some weird results. The page spends a long time waiting for the content to be served, as you can see below:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/AwFUDw5.png" alt="Network output"></p>
  
  <p>As you can see, the <em>new</em> page takes 682ms waiting for the content to be sent back to the browser. Is there anyway that I can improve this? Why does Laravel has such a big overhead?</p>
  
  <p>Apart from a custom Facade that we use to make using Entypo easier, there are no extra packages except the defaults that come with Laravel.</p>
  
  <p>Does anybody know how this can be improved?</p>