safari vs the rest

safari after a day or two loads pages so slow -- for example it sometimes takes 3+ seconds to load a common site like linkedin (perhaps a sign to stop opening this cursed site). chrome just seems to load pages so much faster. the only safari extension i have is ublock origin lite, and private relay is off.
chrome, as optimized as it is these days, still does eat at my battery however.
for anyone about to suggest brave, the lack of popularity and crypto bs the browser is built on are turnoffs,
and firefox eats battery faster than chrome and it loads pages slower than chrome (from what ive noticed).
does anyone have advice for any way to make safari load pages as fast as chrome? on an m3 mbp, latest update and everything.