---
title: "SVG optimiser and minifier — free, runs in your browser"
description: "Strip editor metadata, shorten numbers and minify an SVG. Free, no sign-up, and nothing you enter leaves your browser."
url: https://atoneplace.net/tools/svg-optimizer/
site: "At One Place"
---

# SVG optimiser and minifier

Strip editor metadata, shorten numbers and minify an SVG.

## How it works

Removes the metadata that vector editors leave behind, trims excessive decimal precision, and minifies whitespace. Typical savings on an Illustrator or Inkscape export are 30 to 70%.

Editor exports are the reason SVGs are so often enormous. Inkscape writes its own namespaced elements, Illustrator embeds generator comments and unused definitions, and both write coordinates to more decimal places than a screen can resolve — a path point at fifteen significant figures describes a position far finer than an atom.

Precision is where the savings mostly come from and also the one setting that can go wrong. Two decimal places is safe for icons and screen graphics; going lower can visibly distort curves, and very large artboards need more precision than small ones because the coordinates are bigger.

This is a conservative optimiser. It does not merge paths, convert shapes or restructure the document, because those transformations can change rendering in ways that are hard to predict.

> This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to a server, logged or stored, and the page keeps working with the network disconnected.

## Common questions

### Why is my exported SVG so large?

Editor metadata, unused definitions and excessive coordinate precision. Exports routinely carry ten or more decimal places where two would be indistinguishable.

### How much precision is safe?

Two decimals for icons and screen graphics. Large artboards need more, because the same relative error is a bigger absolute distance.

## Related pages

- [Word and character counter](https://atoneplace.net/tools/word-counter/)
- [Typing speed test](https://atoneplace.net/tools/typing-speed-test/)
- [Remove duplicate lines](https://atoneplace.net/tools/remove-duplicate-lines/)
- [Sort lines alphabetically](https://atoneplace.net/tools/sort-lines/)
- [JSON formatter and validator](https://atoneplace.net/tools/json-formatter/)
- [Text compare](https://atoneplace.net/tools/text-diff/)
- [Regex tester](https://atoneplace.net/tools/regex-tester/)
- [Case converter](https://atoneplace.net/tools/case-converter/)
- [Remove empty lines](https://atoneplace.net/tools/remove-empty-lines/)
- [Find and replace](https://atoneplace.net/tools/find-and-replace/)

## Sources

- Calculated on this page — At One Place (/about/)