opened jdate and a few other tabs, nothing that would put my mac pro to shame, and I get spins like the attached ones.
Created attachment 21491 [details] 5 second spin observed.
Created attachment 21492 [details] additional spin, 7 seconds, same loaded website content.
Comment on attachment 21492 [details] additional spin, 7 seconds, same loaded website content. not webkit. whoops
Created attachment 21493 [details] Second spin, 1.59 seconds.
Created attachment 21495 [details] 0.71 seconds, same site.
Created attachment 21496 [details] Same site, different behaviors to trigger.
Of the five logs attached, only the first and third look to have anything particularly WebKit-related executing at the time of the sample. Both of these samples show the time being spent below CFURLConnectionSendSynchronousRequest, which suggests to me that the site in question is doing a synchronous XHR.