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Slow PHP Application? I'll Find the Bottleneck

A PHP page that takes seconds, a request that times out under load, a cron that never finishes — slow PHP apps usually have one dominant cause.

I run a PHP performance diagnosis against your existing system: slow-query log, EXPLAIN output, profiler data and request timing. You get a short report naming the bottleneck and the cheapest fix first.

I'm a backend developer with 10+ years of experience across PHP, Go, MySQL and Elasticsearch. Recent work includes Cenoskop (30M+ products daily), Niftycent (US price intelligence), and facha.sk (Go backend). I build, fix and optimize backend systems that handle real data and real traffic.

What I Can Help With

Diagnose why a PHP application is slow, no rewrite required.

Typical Problems

slow page responses timeouts under load slow cron jobs / background tasks database-driven slowdown cache misses inefficient loops blocking external calls missing indexes

Relevant Experience

Diagnosed a slow Symfony application where a single unindexed query was adding 2 seconds to every page load. Used slow-query log analysis and EXPLAIN to find the cause — a missing composite index on a frequently joined table. Fixed in under an hour.

What Is Included

request timing analysis
slow query log review
EXPLAIN analysis of hot queries
profiler-based hotspot identification
root cause identification
prioritized recommendations

How It Works

You paste or upload slow-log/profiler output and a sample of the request flow. I trace the slowest path with profiling, confirm the cause with EXPLAIN or timing data, and return a written diagnosis with the fix order — what to change first, what to change next. One focused session.

Fixed price €299

Performance diagnosis and a written diagnosis with prioritized recommendations. Implementation is optional and quoted separately.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to give you access to fix it?

No. Diagnosis works from logs and profiler output you provide. Implementation, if you choose it, happens in a follow-up with the appropriate access.

How long does a diagnosis take?

Most single-request slowness cases are resolved in one focused session. Larger systems need a broader sampling pass first.

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Systems I've Built

Relevant production work.

Price Intelligence Engine

Cenoskop / Levnobot

Crawler monitoring millions of products. Processing 30M products daily and comparing them.

Built and maintain the full crawling pipeline — from scraping through Elasticsearch indexing to price comparison.

Data Aggregation Scraping ElasticSearch
US Price Intelligence

Niftycent

Price intelligence engine for the US market. Processing large-scale product data.

Built the data pipeline and crawling infrastructure for large-scale US product monitoring.

Data Aggregation Scraping Big Data
Traffic Analysis

AnalyticsForWebsite

Custom solution for collecting and evaluating traffic metrics with emphasis on processing speed and minimizing backend load.

Designed and built the backend for fast traffic metric collection and evaluation.

Performance Optimization Data Collection
Secure Communication

Paidshield

Chat application with end-to-end encryption.

Built the backend and encryption layer for a secure chat application.

End-to-End Encryption Real-time Communication Security
Job & Services Marketplace

facha.sk

Find a job or offer your services.

Built the Go backend — API, matching logic and deployment.

Job Marketplace Services Go

Need Help With This?

Describe the problem in a few lines — I'll look at it and tell you what I think.

Request a PHP performance diagnosis