Image sprites for website

Question

Is it better to use image sprites for CSS or use a lot of different image files? Maybe it is better to use a lot of different images rather than one sprite or vice versa?

by creating new transparent image which consist of all the images using photoshop or image editing tools — Vitorino fernandes, Dec 29 '14 at 09:08

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 29 '14 at 09:13

As typical website contains multiple css, java script and image files,causing browser to request multiple http requests. By using sprite it causes less http requests (good for webserver and client/user), and so page will be load fast (good for client/user)

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 29 '14 at 09:07

Put everything in 1 sprite, so only 1 request is needed.

EDIT

Actually it's best to put everything that's related on the same sprite, for example a sprite with forum images, a sprite with homepage images, ... Since you don't need the forum images on the homepage. (-> reduce size of request)

Image sprites for website

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