No form, I have customized the layout.html file, but nothing that uses session or forms.
Here is the controller: def index(): """ example action using the internationalization operator T and flash rendered by views/default/index.html or views/generic.html """ response.flash = T('You are successfully running web2py.') return dict(message=T('Hello World')) And here is the view: {{left_sidebar_enabled=right_sidebar_enabled=False}} {{extend 'layout.html'}} {{if 'message' in globals():}} <h1>{{=message}}</h1> <hr /> <h2>Readme</h2> <ul> <li>{{=T('You are successfully running web2py')}}</li> <li>{{=T('This is a copy of the scaffolding application')}}</li> <li>{{=T('You can modify this application and adapt it to your needs')}}</li> <li>{{=A(B(T("click here for the administrative interface")), _href=URL('admin','default','index'))}}</li> <li>{{=A(T("click here for online examples"), _href=URL('examples','default','index'))}}</li> <li><a href="http://web2py.com">web2py.com</a></li> <li><a href="http://web2py.com/book">{{=T('documentation')}}</a></li> </ul> <ol> <li>{{=T('You visited the url')}} {{=A(request.env.path_info,_href=request.env.path_info)}}</li> <li>{{=T('Which called the function')}} {{=A(request.function+'()',_href='#')}} {{=T('located in the file')}} {{=A('web2py/applications/%(application)s/controllers/%(controller)s.py'%request,_href=URL('admin','default','peek',args=(request.application,'controllers',request.controller+'.py')))}}</li> <li>{{=T('The output of the file is a dictionary that was rendered by the view')}} {{=A('web2py/applications/%(application)s/views/%(controller)s/index.html'%request,_href=URL('admin','default','peek',args=(request.application,'views',request.controller,'index.html')))}}</li> </ol> {{else:}} {{=BEAUTIFY(response._vars)}} {{pass}} {{block left_sidebar}}New Left Sidebar Content{{end}} {{block right_sidebar}}New Right Sidebar Content{{end}} I even tried using the stock welcome application with ab: ab -n 1000 http://127.0.0.1:8000/welcome And the average time per request was 73 ms.