Laravel Performance: Optimization Strategies for Web Developers

When it comes to websites, performance of applications/websites have an impact on user experience and rankings across search engines. When developing with Laravel, a PHP framework, you get features and techniques included in the framework to optimize your site for speed and efficacy. In this post we will discuss laravel optimization using effective caching strategies, efficient databases querying and lazy loading vs eager loading along with some other techniques to improve performance.

Caching Strategies

Caching is used to reduce the load on database and speed up the response. Laravel has many caching backends like Memcached and Redis. These are pretty straightforward to implement in Laravel.

// Cache a query result for 60 minutes
$posts = Cache::remember('posts', 60, function () {
    return Post::all();
});

This code checks for posts and if not then fetches them and adds them to cache for 60 minutes.

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache;

$popularPosts = Cache::remember('popular_posts', 1440, function () {
    return Post::with('author', 'comments')
               ->where('views', '>', 1000)
               ->orderBy('views', 'DESC')
               ->take(10)
               ->get();
});