Feedback on Django based task manager tool with very slow database handling

This is my first post in the Django subreddit, so please bear with me, if it's out of scope or not fulfilling enough.

Over the past years, I have been working on and off on my first Django based project, which is a task manager web-platform being customized to my personal needs. The code is developed based on various tutorials and with help from vibe coding.

I have spent quite some effort to make the web-platform faster, but it still performs relatively slow even for a small database (server response time of 4-6 seconds for less than 500 database entries). I have tried to optimize the code by doing the following:

* Reducing query calls by profiling with queryhnter
* Use select\_related() and prefetch\_related()
* Use Q objects for complex queries
* Detect n+1 queries and solve them

Further I have tried to pin down the reason for the slow performance and have concluded the following:

* Performance issues not related to:
* Html template, as the response is the same with the template out-commented
* SQL query request, as this is insignificant
* Problem (could be) related to:
* View class: Processing of the DB objects (after queries)

None of the above efforts

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