Safari "communicating" in the background

Hi all,
Has anyone else noticed that Safari seems to be communicating with something/someone in the background?
I noticed the network connection on my router blinking rapidly this evening, and went to check my machine, only to find out that it wasn't Mail or any other app. After quitting Safari, the connection stopped.
Even now, with only this window open, its sending around 180 packets per second, and getting them right back. It doesn't matter if I close this window and open another window, the same thing occurs. Running Safari with no windows open continues to do it again. Very strange.
I'm quite sure that I have no malware running (consistently doing scans for these sorts of things) so I'm a little stumped. Any ideas?
Happy New year and thanks!

That would do the trick. I didn't realise that top sites updated themselves even when the Top Sites page itself was not open. It seems to constantly communicate over the net to ensure that pages are relevant and updated, which is ironic, because it seems that they rarely look updated when I browse them at startup.... Oh well...
Thanks very much.

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