PDF Generation Too Slow

Hello everyone.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I'm generating a PDF based on a blade view in Laravel 10. It's a very simple view with only two images, not very large. The problem is that the generation process takes more than 20 seconds. If I remove the images, the generation is instantaneous.

The PDF is generated and saved to disk. As I mentioned, if I do it without the images, it generates it instantly; if I add the images, it takes more than 20 seconds to generate. Am I doing something wrong? Is there any way to speed up this process?

This is my generation code.

            $data = [
                'documento' => $documento,
                'documentoPasos' => $documentoPasos,
                'documentoPasoUsuarios' => $documentoPasoUsuarios,
                'documentoArchivos' => $documentoArchivos            
            ];

            // Generar el PDF con el tamaño y orientación correctos

            $options = new \Dompdf\Options();
            $options->set('isHtml5ParserEnabled', true);
            $options->set('isRemoteEnabled', true); // Permitir imágenes externas
            $options->set('defaultFont', 'Arial'); // Establecer la fuente
            $options->set('defaultPaperSize', 'letter');

            $pdf = new \Dompdf\Dompdf($options);
            $pdf->setPaper('letter', 'portrait');
            $pdf->loadHtml(view('operacion.documento.documento_auditoria_show', $data)->render());
            $pdf->render();

            // Grabo el PDF en disco temporalmente para firmarlo

            Storage::disk('local')->put('temp/documento_temporal_' . $documento->id . '.pdf', $pdf->output());

Thanks.

Start with the generation code and the Blade view at operacion.documento.documento_auditoria_show, reproducing the PDF with and without the two images. Inspect the Dompdf options, especially remote image loading, and compare where the extra time is spent. Done means identifying the cause of the image-related delay and documenting a verified way to reduce it.