This reminds me of Paul Prescod's article from 2003 which specifically used Google's landing page as an example of performance improvements that could be obtain

This reminds me of Paul Prescod's article from 2003 which specifically used Google's landing page as an example of performance improvements that could be obtained by a judicious use of SVG: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/07/16/svg-prescod.html http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/07/16/svg-prescod.html