Title: Image size and http requests
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Image size and http requests

 *  [kustv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kustv/)
 * (@kustv)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-size-and-http-requests/)
 * Hi,
    I am using a lot of svgs on my website but unfortunately the svgs with paths
   are quite large in size, even when run through a compressor tool. I wanted to
   combine 3 small images in order to reduce http requests but then I noticed that
   the combined image is much larger than the three small images together(300kb 
   vs 200kb). So would it still make more sense to combine them so that I have less
   http requests or is the end size more important?
 * Thank you for your help.

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 *  [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-size-and-http-requests/#post-6510826)
 * It is definitely beneficial to minimize the number of http requests being sent.
   Many people put all of their site images on a single image file (using Photoshop
   or some other photo editing software). Then, there is only one http request for
   all images on the site (referred to as “CSS Sprites”).
 * In this case; I would probably reduce the http requests and go with the single
   file. Even though it is slightly larger in size; I think reducing two http requests
   is better.
 * You can always optimize the “combined” image, for the web. If you go to a site
   like [GTMetrix](https://gtmetrix.com); and read through the stats, you’ll see
   links where you can get an optimized image of all images on your site (with file
   sizes; and how much space can be saved).
 *  Thread Starter [kustv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kustv/)
 * (@kustv)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-size-and-http-requests/#post-6510839)
 * Thank you for your reply. I knwo sprites are recommended, but I have no idea 
   how to implement these as I am a beginner…also, some of my images are svg and
   some are png or jpg, so not sure how that would work.
    I am already compressing
   through Tinypng or compressor/kraken.io, are there better/additional options?

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-size-and-http-requests/#post-6510839)
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