Is it bad to hotlink jQuery from jquery.com?

Question

This will probably get a pretty nasty response, but my server isn't the fastest at the moment, and my site loads much faster if I hotlink from the jQuery homepage so they server the content. Is this bad to do? Does jQuery eventually remove those js files from their page?

Answer 1

Better hotlink it from Google API libraries.

Very big advantages:

• Google is fast and highly available
• Separate hosts, allows the client to load JQuery simultaneously with your pages and images (browsers support only a limited number of connections per host)
• Probably even faster still, because many websites use it, so this Google version is probably in your visitor's cache anyway.