Links in Safari slow to open

Hi there,

I'm still somewhat new to Macs but here's an issue I don't make much progress on. I'm on Mavericks on a new Mac Mini i7. What I notice is that in Safari when I click a link or even on a bookmark Safari is slow to open it at first or gets stuck. A refresh always resolves the issue.

I don't have that in other browsers (or other computers in the house) so I don't think it's a connection/firewall/router/etc issue but seomthing inherent to Safari.

Any thoughts?

Thanks