The basic of CSS Sprites is to jam all your icons in one big image to reduce the number of image requests. This is an advantage when the little requests combined are a bigger hit in bandwidth then one big image. Also, since some browsers have very limited capabilities in the field of concurrent HTTP requests, i.e., downloading more than 2 files at once, a few dozen images waiting in the queue can certainly make your visitors think your site is slow, even if that is not true “in reality”.
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