September 2018
Beginner to intermediate
312 pages
7h 22m
English
SVG Optimizer (https://github.com/svg/svgo) is a Node.js utility for optimizing SVG files. SVG files, especially those generated by editors, can have a lot of cruft associated with them. SVGO can clean up the metadata, comments, hidden elements, and so on, without changing the rendering of the SVG element itself.
To install it, assuming you have Node.js installed, run the following on the command line:
$ npm install -g svgo
Usage is as simple as this:
svgo svgo.svg
Running that on a small file generated by Inkscape, reduces the file size by over 50 percent:

The difference is apparent if you look at the change in the svgo.svg source code, ...
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