Why does WordPress pre-download every image/icon/etc?
Running my website through the tester at http://tools.pingdom.com/, I can see that it is downloading a bunch of icons and image files that definitely aren’t even referenced in that page.
Any ideas how to disable this to improve page-load time?
I think Pingdom Tools gives you a false image. I opened your website (
advia.com.au?) in Chrome with the Developer Tools open, and it loads 57 items, not 146 as Pingdom Tools shows. I think Pingdom Tools just scans the HTML and CSS files and loads all images it finds there – you have 113url()references in yourscreen.cssfile for example (click on “Show link hierarchy” to make this clear in Pingdom Tools). Most browsers will only load these when they are needed.