Optimise SVG
An SVG exported from a drawing program carries far more than the drawing: comments, editor metadata, numbers with twelve decimals, empty groups. Here they go, and what you see stays the same.
Your file stays on your device: nothing is uploaded
How it works
The file is rewritten with svgo, the optimiser almost every web project uses, in its default configuration: out go comments, metadata and unused definitions, numbers get shorter, paths get rewritten in a shorter form. What stays is the viewBox, the declared width and height, and the titles — everything that makes the file behave as before inside a page and for someone using a screen reader. Across the 160 SVGs of a real project’s interface the average cut is 45 %, but it depends a lot on who exported it: a file fresh out of Illustrator can lose 70 %, one that already went through an optimiser loses nothing — and in that case you get your original back rather than a slightly larger file. Very detailed drawings are the one case where the rewrite costs, and not because of file size: path compaction costs the square of the number of commands, so two hundred thousand points in a single path are worth three minutes while the same points split across a hundred paths are worth a second and a half. Past about ten expected seconds that step is skipped and the rest is not — and when that happens we say so.
Your files are never uploaded. Anywhere.
Not to a server of ours, not to a third party, never. When you pick a file it stays in your browser’s memory: it is read, processed and written back on your device, and you save the result yourself. There is no path that takes it elsewhere, because there is no server to send it to.
- Processed locallyFormats are handled by WebAssembly code running in your browser, not by a remote service.
- Nothing to upload, nothing to wait forOther services send your file to a server and then send it back to you. Here the file never leaves: there is no upload to wait for.
- No accountNo sign-up, no email, no daily limits to get around by paying.
- No files to deleteOthers promise to erase your files after an hour. We have nothing to erase: they never reached us.