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Might be able to get that down to 5 requests if they use .pngs instead of .gifs and throw them into a sprite sheet.

Those gifs are less than 1kB each. Just include them in the CSS as base64. Or don't, doesn't matter for a site with such simple code anyway.

You can also have gif spritesheets.

Woah didn't know that. Thanks!