slow loading in safari

Sorry, I no longer think this is an Enfold-specific issue. At this point, it seems to be something very specific to WordPress in general certain Safari users. Like WP sites will load fine for me in Safari, but hang crazy long for my roommate (same version of Safari, same house). It seems to happen with various themes and various hosting services (although all shared hosting). And it doesn’t even seem consistent — sometimes the same sites load fine. But it’s definitely an issue, just tough to pin down. DNS prefetching seems to have potential as a culprit. Please let me know if this issue sounds familiar to you, although I realize it’s not Enfold-specific, so feel free to ignore ;) And sorry for the false alarm.

Haha! Yeah, that’s fine for me, but the issue is that I’m trying to build a website for my roommate (a successful animator) and he’s reluctant to use WordPress because occasionally (not all the time) but often) the first page of the WordPress sites I have him test (various themes on various hosts, although all shared hosting) hang on the first load for like 25 seconds! At this point, from what I gather, the issue seems to be due to a combination of Safari, shared hosting, WordPress (or maybe Jetpack), and maybe some settings specific to certain users’ computers. Anyway, for those people, that load time is totally and utterly unacceptable. So far, I haven’t had any other clients barking at me, but it seems to be a “real” issue, and one of the toughest mysteries I’ve ever tried to solve in this field. So, please let me know if you guys hear anything — I’d really appreciate it. Thanks for all your help with Enfold — I’ve now purchased it 8 times — far more than any other theme in the history of my web design career ;)

Thanks for checking! It loads fine on my machine on the same connection, too, but we think we have experienced it on other machines and other connections. And he doesn’t seem to have issues with any other sites — he cruises around all day every day on that computer and that connection with no problem. So weird!