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@toufik94 How is 200ms “slow”? What response time are you expecting?
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May 29, 2022
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Basic Laravel API pretty slow
Hi all, I made a very basic test API in Laravel which really only does 1 thing: returning the string ''hey''. This is what it looks like in api.php:
Route::get('/test', function () { return 'Here!'; });
In Postman this API takes on average 200ms to execute.
I don't have years of Laravel experience, but even I know this seems very unacceptable. What could be causing API's to be this slow? There isn't even a database involved.
The project I've created is brand new and I haven't touched anything weird. I did a full cache refresh using php artisan optimize. The project is currently running on my local PHP webserver using php artisan serve. I also tried using 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost as some websites recommended but no difference. I'm also not using anything crazy like a docker or something.
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@martinbean 200ms for just 1 simple string doesn't seem right to me. The least I would expect is a response time below 100ms.
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@Toufik94 remember tracking it with a debug tool in order to time it can actually increase the time.
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@jlrdw I don't use a debugtool to track its time. In Postman you can see exactly how much time it took to fetch the API. It says around 200ms.
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What do you measure with postman ?
How do you measure with postman and "php artisan serve" ?
Best way, open firefox dev tools / network and see the elapsed time for your request.
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@sr57 In Firefox it also says that it takes around 200ms to fetch the API. That can't be right
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It's right but it seems too long really, anything in your logs?
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@sr57 200ms for 1 string doesn't seem right? I mean what if I had a way bigger API like one that would return 100 users. How much time would that cost giving that it needs 200ms only to return the word ''here''.
Or am I judging this completely wrong?
Level 75
@Toufik94 return a json array with 200 names, how long? I am guessing it will be about the same.
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@jlrdw I did a str_repeat('Name', 200). Don't know wether that would be good as well for testing purposes. This generates 1 big string with ''name'' being repeated 200 times. It takes around the same amount of time as only printing ''here''.
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@Toufik94 I meant some json.
Here is some sample data: https://gist.github.com/gcollazo/884a489a50aec7b53765405f40c6fbd1
But search there are other samples online.
Also remember the laravel request cycle takes some time anyway. 200 isn't too bad. But test some with various data.
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@jlrdw Fetxhing that same json directly from your github link in postman takes around 20ms. Copy/pasting the json data to Laravel and then returning that in the api takes again around 200ms in Postman.
Thats almost 10 times as slow.
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200 does seem slow but of course i have no way of assessing the relative performance of your pc
The php webserver is in no way optimised for performance
what you appear to be missing is that booting the framework is thousands of lines of code so your one line of response is insignificant compared to booting the framework. You will find that the response is pretty constant irrespective of the complexity of your code
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