Safari slow loading

It appears that it takes a longer time than usual for safari to load when trying to get on web sites. Is there any fix? Is the cache a problem?

I would also like to thank you for the help. I have a MacBook 2.16 with 1 gb ram osx 10.5.4.
I could use safari in real time for about 15 or so minutes then I would get a revolving pinwheel. The pinwheel would last anywhere from 5 seconds to sometimes a minute and a half before I would be able to have control of the computer again. It was getting so bad that I sometimes had 20 or 30 seconds between pinwheels - very very frustrating. Restarting Safari did not help, nor did restarting the computer.
Emptying Safari's cache and resetting Safari did not help.
I called apple support and they walked me through resetting the smc, had me empty the caches in all of the computer's "library" folders and then reset the p ram. All of that had little effect on my spinning pinwheel problem.
I also opened up the "Activity Monitor" utility and watched that during these 'spinning pinwheel' sessions a message would state that "Safari was not responding."
I must say that after I followed the instructions that Klaus1 has given us here that I have not had any problems at all. I am surfing the net and not having any slowdowns, pinwheels, or whatever. It is like having a new computer again.
I plan on calling Apple Care, as my "Case" is still open, and informing them of this fix.
I can't be sure, but I think my macbook is also running cooler - I can't tell for certain as I didn't actually take temperatures before, but I did notice that during the revolving pinwheel episodes the computer was very warm to the touch - so warm/hot that I couldn't stand to have it on my lap. Now I have been online for about an hour and no such heat.
Klaus1 thanks again for the help. It definitely cured my problem(s).

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_+If that doesn't work try changing your dns settings. I had a similar issue and after a visit to opendns.com and changing my settings, things are better than before. Plus I changed the settings on my router and which solved the problem for all my computers._+
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Adding Open DNS codes to your Network Preferences, should give good results in terms of speed-up as well as added security:
If you are using a single computer: Open System Preferences/Network. Double click on your connection type, or select it in the drop-down menu, and in the box marked 'DNS Servers' add the following two numbers:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2296
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This is described here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3408?viewlocale=en_US
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killall -9 WebKitPluginHost
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