title: Does chopping up big pictures into smaller ones increase web speed performance?
body: <p>Checking the C&amp;A website I noticed that they chunked their bigger pictures into little parts, which they positioned absolutely to make a big one out of it again.</p>
  
  <p>Why are they doing this? Performance? One might be reasoning that loading 6 small pictures in parallel might be faster than loading one big picture at once. But is that actually the case? Wouldn't it just mean 6x as many requests where each of it utilizes 1/6th of the available bandwidth.</p>
  
  <p>You can find an example <a href="http://www.c-and-a.com/de/de/shop/product.html#!/Boys" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> (the picture of the two boys).</p>