I can confirm, and for me - even if I want like Kagi - I can’t tolerate it. I’ve read it depends on the Country you’re in. In Germany, where I’m from, loading time is up to 3 seconds - while on Google it’s almost instant.
Google is much faster, because it's slower to show you results related to your search terms. It's much faster to just show you whatever slop their AI happened to cook up
Like, the page loads very fast, but only with the search bar, and only then you get the results appearing after some loading. But it's acceptable.
Image search is rather slow, though.