Now take into consideration that this is a very basic page just loading a video bg. It doesn’t take long but you should see the delay in Safari, this only amplifies if you have more content and videos on the page.
Open Link 1 in Chrome and Safari, they will load at a similar speed, because Safari doesn’t use a pre-loader.
The most irritating part is, as soon as Safari has loaded the page, it loads really quickly with a refresh, so this only effects new visitors who visit for the first time in Safari. I spent around 6 hours trying to figure out a hack to get around it, but didn’t make any progress. Maybe someone else here in the forum has a idea??
I can report this safari solution works fairly well for me…I say ‘fairly’ well because my site appears to load so fast that the ‘gear’ pre-loader doesn’t have a chance to load first, but appears to interrupt the banner as it is loading, as the ‘gears’ pop up, and then the banner returns with its text animation working as expected, with a single loop.