As a part of our performance enhancements in our system, we disovered that we have 43 requests to the server when the page is loaded.
This is huge delay in page loading.

what he decided to do is recreate the images on the site into 1 big image & "pick" from it using CSS Sprite.

For those who does not femilier with the "sprite way", it is a concept that we take all our images and merge them into one combined image.
hence eliminating the need of requesting each image individualy.
using CSS classes we define the original images from the big image (sort of cutting it from the big image).

Doing this, it reduces the requests dramaticly and improves loading time of the page.
same outcome, better performance.