Spinning Beach Ball For 1-2 Seconds After Loading Safari (MacBook Air M2)

Long story short, purchased a MacBook Air M2 (8gb, 512gb) in Midnight at the start of the year

Everything was fine, but the fingerprints on the casing annoyed me no end, so sent back to Amazon and had it replaced with the Starlight model (same spec)

To the reason for the post, the MacBook came running Monterey so upgraded to Ventura.

However I started to notice that on every start of Safari, for like 1-2 seconds, there would be the spinning coloured beach ball whilst the Start Page loaded the favourites etc

Perhaps I just never noticed before, but am pretty sure my previous Macbook didn't do this on launching safari!

Tried the usual cache clear, booting into safe mode, starting safari whilst holding shift and still the 1-2 sec beachball spin (even in safe mode)

I then thought perhaps its the start page loading favourites etc, so changed the option to Empty page, but still the short spin.

Perhaps am being OCD, but hey thought id check on the forums incase its not just me.