do webpages open slower now?

i am coming from SL, I have a mac pro, 2.8 Ghz quad core with 8 gigs of ram.

When I was on SL webpages seemed to open very quickly, ever had to wait but now it seems to take about 2 seconds for a page to load.

Is this just something I am going to have to get used to? I even tried switching to a google DNS but it still takes just as long.

I did try firefox again and it seems to load way faster , so is this a safari issue?

 

I have done a little testing and it does seem that safari lags way more than firefox in mavericks. Was this true in ML too? I am coming from SL and it was always pretty instant when going to webpages but now safari seems to be lagging for 2 secs before it loads the page.