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Production-ready performance monitoring for Laravel applications. Automatically injects performance statistics as HTML comments—lightweight, secure, and production-safe.

For years I've added basic performance stats to WordPress sites as HTML comments in the footer. They're always available in the HTML source, don't bother users, and help determine if a site is cached and how quickly pages generate. When I moved to Laravel, I missed this functionality and kept manually adding stats to templates. This package automates that process.

Note: While this package injects into your pages, is typically not sensitive information, you shouldn't use this package if you don't want site visitors being able to see this data.

Features

Automatic tracking - Measures page load time and generation timestamp
Production-ready - Unlike development-only tools, safe for production use
Non-intrusive - Injects as HTML comments, invisible to end users
Safe - Only processes HTML responses, won't break JSON/XML
Zero configuration - Works immediately after installation

Requirements

PHP 8.2+
Laravel 10, 11, or 12

Installation

composer require ryanhellyer/laravel-production-stats

Usage

No configuration needed. The package automatically tracks page load times and generation timestamps, injecting them as HTML comments before the closing </body> tag.

Example Output

<!-- Page generated in 42 ms at 2025-12-12 14:43:42 -->
</body>

View in your browser's page source.

Testing

Run the test suite with:

composer test

What Gets Tracked

Page load time - Time to render from Laravel bootstrap to response (milliseconds)
Generation timestamp - When the page was generated

Changelog

1.0

Initial package release
Automatic page load time tracking
Generation timestamp display

License

GPL-2.0 - See LICENSE file for details.

Author

Ryan Hellyer - ryan@hellyer.kiwi | GitHub

Support

Ping me via ryan.hellyer.kiwi/contact if you encounter any problems.

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