I have a VPS 2GB RAM 2 CPU. On a local VM with 1GB RAM and 1 CORE the following script takes just under 2 seconds to run: 
!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Mojo::DOM;
use Mojo::UserAgent;

use Data::Printer;

my $ua = Mojo::UserAgent->new;

my $url = 'http://www.testURL.com';

my $page = $ua->get( $url )
        ->res
        ->dom;

my $dom = Mojo::DOM->new( $page );

for my $deal ( $dom->find('p.title > a.title')->each ){

        ProcessLink( $deal->attr('href'), $deal->text );
}

sub ProcessLink{

    warn "process link\n";
    my ( $linkURL, $linkText ) = @_;
    print "Link: $linkURL | Title: $linkText";


}

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The exact same code on the VPS takes 1m 57s to run. Networking from this VPS is fine, using top I see the CPU is maxed out, when Mojo::DOM-new is called. Is there anything I can do the make the run faster? A wget of the page from the shell is instant (VPS in a data center)

In reply to Simple script goes from 2s to ~2mins when run on VPS by Anonymous Monk

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