Google's Sprite Image is a Thing of Beauty

June 3, 2008

in CSS

If you want to know more about CSS sprites and how to put them together, feast your eyes on Google’s:

Here’s the history of Google’s PNG sprite image

Google's Sprite Image

http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo.png


Google's Sprite Image

http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo2.png


Google's Sprite Image

http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo3.png


Google's Sprite Image

http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo4.png


Google's Sprite Image

http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo5.png


Google's Sprite Image

http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo6.png


Google Image Sprite

http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo7.png


http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo8.png


http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo9.png



March 25, 2010 – http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo10.png



April 1, 2010 – http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo11.png



April 21, 2010 – http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo12.png



May 4, 2010 – http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo13.png


Google Sprite
July 2, 2010 – http://www.seodenver.com/wp-content/uploads/HLIC/53708e94f618e796e88d30563dab0856.png


You can’t get much more efficient than that…

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1 trackback

Google Search Page with Styles Disabled Reveals CSS Sprites | False Positives
March 21, 2009 at 9:27 am

2 comments… read them below or add one

Sam Davies July 13, 2010 at 1:19 pm

Hey,

Check out the one I used on this site I built..

http://www.ficr.com.au

Although I stumbled across your blog searching for ‘image sprite SEO’ as I am concerned all the image replacement I have done is causing negative feedback from the google spiders….

Sam

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Zack Katz July 13, 2010 at 3:23 pm

@Sam Davies: The sprite is good, but consider breaking it into multiple sprites. Too large a sprite can make your site appear to load slower rather than faster. Maybe consider having buttons, navigation, and text sprites. You’re still at only 3 requests, but the images will be smaller and will be loaded as available.

In terms of search engines punishing you for it, they won’t; they’ll only punish you if you’re hiding spammy text in the text replacement.

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