How to optimise a report to improve performance?

Summary:

We have a report related to Sales order & shipping details, which takes a lot more time than usual to load the parameters & also to fetch the required info even for a single sales order.

So what can we check & work upon to optimise the query/report to improve the performance?

Thank you!

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