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Ow my bandwidth! If we were to just drop gzipped SVG source files in place of rasterized PNGs, their bandwidth usage would go huuuuugely up.
Category group Flags Icons Logos Maps All Too many bytes Avg width Hits % hits Avg PNG % bw PNG gzip SVG Avg SVGZ % bw SVG bloat 30px 101,119 39% 570 8% 10,173 24% 18x 32px 46,108 18% 1,681 11% 7,277 8% 4x 39px 49,676 19% 2,222 15% 7,511 9% 3x 192px 7,301 3% 25,599 25% 199,171 34% 8x 48px 257,035 100% 2,856 100% 16,669 100% 6x 3/4 of SVG views are simple images such as flags, logos, and other icons, usually rendered small. The source is compact -- under 10kb gzipped -- but still several times larger than the rasterized PNGs! Maps are rarer, but disproportionately large... and have even larger source code.
Page 1 and 2: SVG in Wikipedia and Wikimedia Comm
Page 3 and 4: Wikipedia Our flagship site, and of
Page 5 and 6: Year 2009... 4 years of SVG MSIE 8
Page 7 and 8: Non-destructive editing http://comm
Page 9 and 10: Scaling Needs and technology evolve
Page 11 and 12: Scaling Needs and technology evolve
Page 13 and 14: Potential - linking (workaround OK)
Page 15 and 16: Potential - Interactivity (no worka
Page 17 and 18: librsvg bugs? Using a single render
Page 19 and 20: SVG challenges Size Security Speed
Page 21: Fat SVGs! Here I’m comparing the
Page 25 and 26: Map madness! Wikimedians love to er
Page 27 and 28: Map madness! WTF? Wikimedians love
Page 29 and 30: Simplify! Here we really need a mor
Page 31 and 32: Yay! ... but at intended screen siz
Page 33 and 34: Beware! Just applying simplificatio
Page 35 and 36: SVG challenges Security Size Speed
Page 37 and 38: Workflow To make participation easy
Page 39 and 40: Workflow? Ideally, we’d have a de

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