Because browsers limit how many concurrent HTTP requests they make to a website, a web page with many small icon images can result in a longer load time.

This article shows how to combine many small images into a single larger image - a CSS sprite - using the free ASP.NET Sprite and Image Optimization Library available from Microsoft.
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