Laravel Page Speed

Laravel Page Speed delivers an end-to-end optimization pipeline for Blade-rendered pages and REST APIs with measurable gains in latency, bandwidth, and resiliency.

Overview
Optimization Pipelines
Quick Integration
Measured Impact
Observability and Resilience
Documentation Suite
Contributing and Support

Overview

Dual scope: optimizes rendered HTML and JSON/XML payloads without modifying your business payloads.
Composable stack: enable only the middleware you need through config/laravel-page-speed.php.
Store-agnostic: works with Redis, Memcached, DynamoDB (via cache tags), file, or array drivers across Laravel 10–12.
Built for observability: exposes latency, memory usage, cache hits, and circuit status via standard HTTP headers.

Optimization Pipelines

Web (HTML/Blade)

Structured HTML minification and comment stripping that stay compatible with Bootstrap, Tailwind, and Livewire.
Targeted critical CSS inlining to reduce render-blocking round trips.
Script deferral and DNS prefetching that maintain execution order through data-ps-* guards.

APIs (REST/JSON)

Adaptive compression (Brotli first, Gzip fallback) with configurable size thresholds to avoid overhead on small payloads.
Response caching with method-aware invalidation, dynamic tag derivation per path segment, and hit-rate metrics.
Pre-hardened security headers (HSTS, CSP, Permissions-Policy) and an automatic circuit breaker with customizable fallbacks.
Lightweight health check middleware designed for Kubernetes probes and service orchestrators.

Quick Integration

Web Middleware

Choose the registration pattern that matches your Laravel install:

Laravel 10.x (app/Http/Kernel.php)

Append the middleware inside the web group so the order stays deterministic:

protected $middlewareGroups = [
    'web' => [
        // ... existing middleware
        \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\InlineCss::class,
        \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ElideAttributes::class,
        \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\InsertDNSPrefetch::class,
        \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\CollapseWhitespace::class,
        \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\DeferJavascript::class,
    ],
];

Laravel 11.x and 12.x (bootstrap/app.php)

Use the middleware configurator introduced in Laravel 11. Extend the existing ->withMiddleware closure:

use Illuminate\Foundation\Configuration\Middleware;

return Application::configure(basePath: __DIR__.'/../')
    // ... existing configuration
    ->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware) {
        $middleware->appendToGroup('web', [
            \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\InlineCss::class,
            \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ElideAttributes::class,
            \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\InsertDNSPrefetch::class,
            \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\CollapseWhitespace::class,
            \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\DeferJavascript::class,
        ]);

        // keep other group definitions (api, broadcast, etc.) here
    })
    ->create();

API Middleware

Attach only the middleware that fits your API architecture.

Laravel 10.x (app/Http/Kernel.php)

protected $middlewareGroups = [
    'api' => [
        // ... existing middleware
        \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ApiSecurityHeaders::class,
        \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ApiResponseCache::class,
        \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ApiETag::class,
        \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ApiResponseCompression::class,
        \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ApiPerformanceHeaders::class,
        \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ApiCircuitBreaker::class,
        \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ApiHealthCheck::class,
    ],
];

Laravel 11.x and 12.x (bootstrap/app.php)

Inside the same ->withMiddleware closure from the Web section, append the API stack:

$middleware->appendToGroup('api', [
    \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ApiSecurityHeaders::class,
    \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ApiResponseCache::class,
    \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ApiETag::class,
    \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ApiResponseCompression::class,
    \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ApiPerformanceHeaders::class,
    \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ApiCircuitBreaker::class,
    \VinkiusLabs\LaravelPageSpeed\Middleware\ApiHealthCheck::class,
]);

Publish assets and baseline environment variables

composer require vinkius-labs/laravel-page-speed
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="VinkiusLabs\\LaravelPageSpeed\\ServiceProvider"

Recommended baseline for cached APIs:

LARAVEL_PAGE_SPEED_ENABLE=true
API_CACHE_ENABLED=true
API_CACHE_DRIVER=redis
API_CACHE_TTL=300
API_CACHE_DYNAMIC_TAGS=true

Measured Impact

Metric	Before	After (cache hit)	Delta
Page Size (Blade)	245 KB	159 KB	-35%
First Paint	1.8 s	1.2 s	-33%
API Payload	15.2 KB	2.8 KB	-82%
Average API Latency	450 ms	2 ms	-99.6%
SQL Queries (100-item list)	35	0	-100%
Monthly Bandwidth (estimate)	15 TB	3 TB	-80%

Reference scenario: 1M requests/day with a 65% cache hit rate.

Observability and Resilience

Performance headers: X-Response-Time, X-Memory-Usage, X-Cache-Status, X-Circuit-Breaker-State ready for ingestion by Datadog, New Relic, or Prometheus scrapers.
Configurable circuit breaker: customize failure thresholds, timeout, and scope (route, endpoint, or path) via configuration.
Adaptive health check: aggregates database, cache, disk, and queue probes with optional 10-second result caching.
Debug-aware skipping: curated skip patterns avoid instrumenting Debugbar, Telescope, Horizon, or custom diagnostic routes.

Documentation Suite

Contributing and Support

Review CONTRIBUTING.md before opening pull requests.
Run composer test (or docker compose exec app vendor/bin/phpunit) prior to submitting changes.
File issues and start discussions via GitHub Issues and Discussions.
Distributed under the MIT license.

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