Now that you've learned all about SVG in this book — everything from the basics of pure SVG markup to the dynamic, JavaScript-based SVG work you've done over the past few chapters — you're ready to take advantage of everything that SVG offers.
One final aspect of SVG that we should look at is how to make sure the work you do is presented in the best possible way when you serve it to your users. SVG should be optimized for performance, both in terms of performance over the wire and in terms of complexity. Keeping your SVG files as lean as they can be and serving them efficiently is going to make for a much better experience for your users.
This chapter will serve as a high-level introduction to the many ways that you can optimize your SVG images. Some of what follows is pure, performance-related engineering. Others are pure SVG tooling.
In this chapter, you'll learn about the following:
- Compressing SVG on the server in three popular server platforms ...