How to Discover What PHP Code You Should Optimize First to Improve the Performance of a Real Web Application Using a Monitoring Tool By Manuel Lemos A profiling tool can be handy to find the parts of your application code that are slow and that you need to optimize.

If there are many parts of your application that you need to optimize, the next decision is which parts you should work to optimize first.

Fortunately, some profiling tools can help you figure out which parts of your application you need to optimize first.

Please read this short article to learn how to use the Scout Application Performance Monitoring tool to determine which parts of a Laravel or Symfony application you should optimize to achieve the most significant performance improvements sooner.