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

Try this DNS server ...
Open System Preferences > Network > Advanced > DNS
Click + and type:
208.67.222.222
Click + again and do the same.
208.67.220.220
Click OK.
Quit and relaunch Safari to test.

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