CSS Sprite Development

Another optimization that we offer is CSS Sprite development. This is a fine tuning optimization. Each image requires an HTTP request and a browser can only download a specific number of images at a time (ex. 3 images at a time), this time compounds and causes the page to load slower (HTTP Request overload). Most of the time these images are found in the CSS file as background images. A Sprite combines most of your background images into one large image, and then through some CSS trickery reveals only part of the sprite image, the part that shows the original image. In the end many images are placed into one and the HTTP request overload is lessened or eliminated.