SVG Image Compressor
This SVG image compressor shrinks your SVG logos, illustrations or icons to the smallest file size and best quality possible.
- Select a file
For best results use high quality source material that hasn't been compressed before.
- Drag & Drop
Drag your image file onto this website. You can do this anytime.
- Paste image URL
Paste an image URL from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.
- Paste Base64 Data URI
Paste a Base64 Data URI from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.
- Paste image data
Paste an image from your clipboard into this website. You can do this also on the image processing page.
- Use this Photoshop JSX-Script
Use the script to send an image from Photoshop to compress-or-die.
Copy it to the Photoshop Scripts folder. Overwrite what’s there if you’re asked.
Windows: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS...\Presets\Scripts
Mac OS X: Applications/Photoshop CS.../Presets/Scripts
Restart Photoshop.
Allowed file formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, SVG (max. 8 MiB)
Browser support for SVG
Features
- Uses proven SVG compression library "svgo"
- Additional "Extreme compression" to shave off even more bytes
- Prepares the image to ensure best gzip/brotli compression
- For the technical enthusiats: Uses svgo, puppeteer and a lot of custom code.
Why should I use this SVG compressor?
The small file size, crisp rendering at all zoom levels, and full browser support make the XML-based vector image format SVG the perfect format for logos, illustrations, and icons on websites.
Unfortunately, graphics programs (e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Adobe XD, Inkscape, Affinity Designer, Sketch, Figma, etc.) add a lot of meta-data and attributes to the SVG file, but these are not needed for display.
This compressor uses svgo to remove the data that is unnecessary for display. Furthermore, another extreme compression stage has been added, which again brings between about 10 and 20 percent savings in compression, making the result even considerably smaller than vecta.io's nano-compressor.
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