You may sometime slightly notice the performance is not par and very slow when you deploy your Laravel project to production,
Once you deploy, access the server in command line and run the following Artisan commands to increase the Laravel Application speed, and you will wonder what is majic behind these command on boosting Laravel Project performance,

composer dump-autoload
php artisan clear-compiled
php artisan config:cache
php artisan route:cache
php artisan optimize --force