Site Speed

Hi,

I’ve been trying to do things to speed up my site, based on results from pingdom, gtmetrix and google tools. I’ve done pretty much everything that is within my limited ability! So far the speed has gone from about ~8secs to ~3secs.

There’s just a couple of queries i have:
1) Do you have any plans to include any of the background images, social icons etc, into a sprite? I did have a play around myself, using various web tools, with limited success. I was just trying to do the social icons, but i couldn;t achieve the rotating look, instead of revolving vertically, they were revolving sideways which doesn’t look quite the same.

2) I was also wondering about all the style sheets. I use a child theme, and I use @import to import all the style sheets. If for example i don’t use the carousel, i omitted the @import for carousel, but it makes no difference, and the carousel style sheet is being called. Do you use wp_enqueue_style() to call the style sheets (http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/43690/do-i-only-need-to-import-style-css-for-a-child-theme)? Then i could use wp_dequeue_style() to make sure that style sheets that aren’t used don’t get called. Or do you have another suggestion so that style sheets that aren’t used don;t get called?

Many thanks

Angus