Hi @Athulya Pillai ,
As per my knowledge it is normal that application pages are loaded slower than other pages if the amount of code of the Application page is large. Have a try to use another browser like Google Chrome, streamline your code or improve the performance of SharePoint and SQL servers, such as RAM.
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