One of the main things that distinguishes sparklines from other small graphs is that they are "word sized" and can be integrated into a line of text. Because of

One of the main things that distinguishes sparklines from other small graphs is that they are "word sized" and can be integrated into a line of text. Because of this, the graphs tend to be wider than they are tall and also have a very clean appearance to them (not lot of background color or other "chart junk" as Tufte calls them). I would say what you linked to would not be considered sparklines from the above.