FYI I have definitely been encountering Safari freezes today on FTM, and two bank site. I can roll the page up and down or swipe sideways, but no click action was accepted. An observation: the end of the freeze coincided with the start of a Time Machine backup.
Did the end of each separate freeze coincide with TM, or did one freeze last long enough for you to experience it on more than one website? I don't run TM, so I can't look at this from that angle, but I"ll see if I can dream up some sort of analog for it.
I've now run into the glitch on wunderground.com in addition to FTM.
I've had Activity Monitor on my desktop, but it didn't show anything.
I"m trying to quantify this, but it's shifty.