Safari memory ballons when using Safari on M2 Macbook Pro latest firmware/hardware

I run into this issue nearly daily and after a few weeks I've had to stop using Safari all together because I'm not sure how far into a browsing session I'll be before pages become unresponsive due to the memory of Safari balloning to ridiculous sizes.

In this instance, my Activity monitor would suggest that the issue is related to specific sites, however when the same sites are ran in Chrome or Firefox, they do not perform the same according to each browser's respective task manager.

Other times, the line will reflect that Safari itself is taking up a large chunk of memory. As high as 4-6GB which seems absurd.

The Macbook Pro is M2 and runs Monterrey 12.5.1. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing the memory issue and/or how to fix? Or does anyone experience something similar?