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Cleanup squad!<br />
200×236 PNG: 24.5k<br />
source <strong>SVG</strong>: 506k<br />
gzip <strong>SVG</strong>: 239k<br />
scoured: 237k<br />
gzip scoured: 49k<br />
20x bigger!<br />
10x bigger<br />
10x bigger<br />
2x bigger<br />
This map appears on the “San Francisco” article at a mere 200 pixels wide; the automatically<br />
rasterized PNG weighs <strong>in</strong> at about 24 kilobytes... but the raw <strong>SVG</strong> source is a whopp<strong>in</strong>g 20<br />
times bigger! Even gzipped we’re 10x the size of the PNG; comb<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g an automated run of<br />
Scour and gzip gets us down to 49k with no visible loss. We’re <strong>in</strong> the right ballpark but still<br />
more detailed than we need.
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