Wayfinder performance

<?php
 $url = 'full/url/of/the/page';

 $ch = curl_init(); // Initialize Curl
    if ($ch === false) {
        $return = "Failed to initialize cURL";
    }

    @curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, TRUE);
    @curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    @curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
    @curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, 1); // don't use a cached version of the url

    ignore_user_abort(true); // keep on going even if user pulls the plug

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); // tell cURL the URL

        $content = curl_exec($ch); // get the page 

        if (curl_errno($ch)) {
            return 'cURL error: ' . curl_errno($ch) . " - " . curl_error($ch);
          
        } else  {
            // put the content in the chunk here
           $chunk = $modx->getObject('modChunk', 'MyChunk');
           if ($chunk) {
                $chunk->setContent($content);
                $chunk->save();
           } else {
               return 'could not find chunk';
           }

           
     }