Id look at the code, and see where bottle necks might be in PHP. You can cache result sets that are more popular if you want as well. Are you on PHP 7? That will give you a significant speed bump too.
install xdebug and run the request, see what takes so much time. clockwork for laravel is a good starter too.
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