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A sprite generator for Views.
Images are responsible for a fair chunk of the load time for a web page. By combining images into a single one, this impact on the load time can be reduce. Even with cached images, browsers will still contact the server holding the files to find out if the file has changed. This adds time to your page loads. With a sprite, browsers need only contact the server once, minimizing the time impact.
WARNING: Using this module may, and most likely will, negatively affect your SEO rankings. The module works by replacing <img> tags with <div>s (setting a background on the div). Google et. al. use <img> tags to determine ranking scores, and without them, could deduct from your pages rank in search results. It's probably best to use this module if you have pages with an enormous amount of images, while page load times, not SEO/organic traffic, is the primary concern.
Sponsored in part by: NBC DigitalWorks