As I mentioned in a prior post, there are a lot of really good tools available to developers to aid in making performance optimization quick and easy. I've decided to highlight some of my favorite tools that I've come across and thought I'd kick things off with Steve Souders excellent SpriteMe bookmarklet.
Having a lot of images in a page can be very costly. Each image requires an HTTP request, and each HTTP request comes with plenty of overhead. I've seen pages with 20+ icons, each requiring their own request - that's a serious hinderance to performance.
