Mark on menu if new posts

First of all, I'm pretty new (noob) on Laravel, and it's awesome. I'm making a blog, and everything is great (In my humble and inexperienced opinion). I want to display a notification on the navbar if there are articles posted less than 24 hours ago. I've made it, but I'm sure there's is a much better way, because three more SQL queries are needed (One for each category) In my controller $newPostEntrevistas = FALSE; $newPostAcercaDeMi = FALSE; $newPostEstiloDeVida = FALSE; $lastPostInterviews = Post::where('category', 'Interviews')->orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->first(['created_at']); $lastPostAboutMe = Post::where('category', 'About me')->orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->first(['created_at']); $lastPostLifestyle = Post::where('category', 'Lifestyle')->orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->first(['created_at']); if ($lastPostInterviews->created_at->diffInHours() < 24) { $newPostInterviews = TRUE; } if ($lastPostAboutMe->created_at->diffInHours() < 24) { $newPostAboutMe = TRUE; } if ($lastPostLifestyle->created_at->diffInHours() < 24) { $newPostLifestyle = TRUE; } Then I pass it to a view like this $posts = Post::orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->paginate($this->paginationNumber()); return view('pages.index', [ 'posts' => $posts, 'newPostInterviews' => $newPostinterviews, 'newPostboutMe' => $newPostAboutMe, 'newPostLifestyle' => $newPostLifestyle, ]); And in the view I catch it like this (In a partial, actually) <nav> <div class="nav-wrapper"> <ul> <li><a href="/"><i class="fa fa-home"></i> Home</a></li> <li> <a href="/interviews"> Interviews @if($newPostInterviews) <i class="fa fa-exclamation-circle"></i> @endif </a> </li> <li> <a href="/lifestyle"> Lifestyle @if($newPostLifestyle) <i class="fa fa-exclamation-circle"></i> @endif </a> </li> <li> <a href="/about-me"> About me @if($newPostAboutMe) <i class="fa fa-exclamation-circle"></i> @endif </a> </li> </ul> </div> </nav> As I said, it works fine. But I want to know your opinions on performance and other (and better) ways to achieve that or good practices, etcetera. Result: It's in spanish, I translated every variable and route to make it easier for you to understand the idea.