Notably, sprites are becoming less useful with H2 and with Google increasingly checking for unused image space. If you're not actually using every sprite element on first load, this method may instead cause a penalty rather than a gain!
So for other people, I'll also echo using SVG here, as well as very closely checking what is penalizing your pagespeed score!
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Notably, sprites are becoming less useful with H2 and with Google increasingly checking for unused image space. If you're not actually using every sprite element on first load, this method may instead cause a penalty rather than a gain!
So for other people, I'll also echo using SVG here, as well as very closely checking what is penalizing your pagespeed score!