Optimize CSS Sprites
How optimizing CSS Sprites improves Web site download performance
- Arranging the images in the sprite horizontally as opposed to vertically usually results in a smaller file size. - Combining similar colors in a sprite helps you keep the color count low, ideally under 256 colors so to fit in a PNG8. - "Be mobile-friendly" and don't leave big gaps between the images in a sprite. This doesn't affect the file size as much but requires less memory for the user agent to decompress the image into a pixel map. 100x100 image is 10 thousand pixels, where 1000x1000 is 1 million pixels
Other Topics
Overview Web Site performance Improvement Minimize HTTP Requests Use a Content Delivery Network Add an Expires or a Cache-Control Header Gzip Components Put Stylesheets at the Top Put Scripts at the Bottom Avoid CSS Expressions Make JavaScript and CSS External Reduce DNS Lookups Minify JavaScript and CSS Avoid Redirects. Remove Duplicate Scripts Configure ETags Make Ajax Cacheable Flush the Buffer Early Use GET for AJAX Requests Post-load Components Preload Components Reduce DOM Elements Split Components Across Domains Minimize the Number of iframes No 404s Reduce Cookie Size Use Cookie-free Domains for Components Minimize DOM Access Develop Smart Event Handlers Choose over @import Avoid Filters Optimize Images Optimize CSS Sprites Don't Scale Images in HTML Make favicon.ico Small and Cacheable Keep Components under 25K Pack Components into a Multipart Document Avoid Empty Image src
