What is so slow here? The render takes up 8% and the queries take up 1%. That leaves 91% unaccounted for.
Completed in 0.06477 (15 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00574 (8%) | DB: 0.00087 (1%) | 200 OK [http://localhost/\]
Any help would be appreciated.
The other 91% is the time it takes to render that to the log file. 
Actually.. that's bizarre.
What is so slow here? The render takes up 8% and the queries take up 1%. That leaves 91% unaccounted for.
That's going to be all the code that isn't a rendering or a database access. You're the one with the code so you should know 
Fred