# Cutting Laravel Cloud Load Times by 60% with Nightwatch

DevFeed: [Cutting Laravel Cloud Load Times by 60% with Nightwatch](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/cutting-laravel-cloud-load-times-by-60-with-nightwatch-3614.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://laravel.com/blog/cutting-laravel-cloud-load-times-by-60-with-nightwatch>)

Author: Mateus Guimarães

Published: 2026-03-27T07:13:54Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Laravel Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/laravel-blog.md>)

Topics: [Laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/laravel.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/laravel.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how the Laravel Cloud environment dashboard's response times were reduced by about 60%, from 907 ms to 354 ms, using Laravel Nightwatch to identify N+1 queries, redundant data loading, oversized payloads, and excessive database queries. The improvements were introduced incrementally over a month.

## Source excerpt

How we cut environment dashboard response times from 907ms to 354ms with Laravel Nightwatch by fixing N+1 queries, redundant data, and deferring load.