Why do I get the spinning ball forever on travel websites?

I use cable internet and had a field tech come out to check the modem/router. He found nothing wrong. I'm wondering if the problem is with my Mac. It seems like with travel sites in particular such as Megabus, or vacation websites, I have to wait a few minutes for the pages to load. Any idea what could be causing this?

If you are using Safari, try emptying the cache. Press Command + Option + E then quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that didn't help, from your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Privacy tab.
Click Details then remove all the cookies for the sites where you see the spinning ball.
Quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that didn't help, Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following:
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.
Quit and relaunch Safari and try one of those sites again.

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