What are the best practices for image sprites? [closed]

1. What is the advantage of using image sprites?
2. What are image sprites how are they used?
3. Are sprites still used?

What is the advantage of using image sprites?

The main advantage of using image sprite is to reduce the number of http requests that makes our site's load time faster. The images also load faster making switching from one image to another on some event much smoother. Image Sprite are a collection of images placed into a single image.

What are image sprites how are they used?

An image sprite is a collection of images put into a single image. A web page with many images can take a long time to load and generates multiple server requests. Using image sprites will reduce the number of server requests and save bandwidth.

Are sprites still used?

In recent years, however, they've made a comeback. Sprite is a computer graphics term for a two-dimensional bitmap that is integrated into a larger scene.