Measure it First you have to find out what is slow before you can fix it. capistrano-measure is a project that can help you do that. Your output will be something like this: I, [2017-04-27T11:40:30.585704 #11159] INFO -- : ============================================================ I, [2017-04-27T11:40:30.586152 #11159] INFO -- : Performance Report I, [2017-04-27T11:40:30.586189 #11159] INFO -- :