Conditional region flash briefly on refresh

I am using conditional region to hide some sections, and they work. but on page refresh, they briefly show their contents and then vanish.

I was under impression these are better to use then Show/hide.

I understand it might have to do with the value of their condition being loaded or not on start.

One condition is on !recordset.hasitems() obviously it has no records on refresh until it gets the records. I am assuming that is why it flashes.

Anything i should be doing better with conditions?

thanks,
J

ps i just noticed adding a preloader helps a lot