SVGO: SVG Optimizer

Updated 2018-09-05. Posted 2015-02-02. Visible to the public. Repeats.

SVG files are often much larger than necessary, containing comments, metadata, hidden elements etc.

Optimize them with this tool.

Web UI: https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/ Show archive.org snapshot
Binary: https://github.com/svg/svgo Show archive.org snapshot

Note that for a properly scaling SVG, you need to keep the viewBox attribute. There's an option --disable=removeViewBox for this.

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