It sounds like you must be loading some JavaScript files directly from jqueryui.com. Instead of that, you should load the files from your own server or use Google's copies:
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/ If you would post a link to your site, I'm sure someone can give you more specifics. -Mike > From: stasch > > I was surprised to today to discover that my site was running > much slower than usual (3 to 4 times slower!). Most of the > delay was spent with the message 'waiting for jqueryui.com'. > This really freaked me out. First of all what gives the > jquery folks the right to ping their site from their code? > Second of all, if they're going to do that they'd better make > sure that the site they are pinging is super fast. > Can anybody enlighten me as to what is going on here? Better > yet, how can I remove that code from my jquery library? I > can't afford to have this kind of performance hit due to > uncontrollable 'features' like this in my code. And if I'm > legally bound to keep that code in the library please advise > me so that I can go back to Prototype. Totally unacceptable! >