Images in buckets (spaces) taking too long to load

On one page i’m getting about 8 images using the bucket (Spaces) and it takes about a minute to load (actual time). Without the images it’s much faster.

I’m using laravel’s Storage library to get the images.

$url = Storage::disk('do_spaces')->url($path);

<img src=" {{ $url }}" />

Can anyone point out why it’s taking so long for the images to load?