Hi, there are a few things you could do to try and improve initial load time.
All the data has to laod before anything shows. Which means all the pings, icon fetching, and integration data fetch, have to run fully before displaying anything.
1. You can make use of the local icons folder, local cache of icon will lead many times faster than online fetching.
2. Disable pings, they are useful but they take more and more time the more apps you have.
3. Check that your integrations themselves are not that slow, and if so, what you could do to make them communicate faster. Like tinkering with qbittorrent's network settings.