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I wish I would have big enough site that this would matter in bandwidth cost.

• pen2l 10y ago
  I think it wouldn't matter in either case, really big svg would be only marginally bigger in size. It would be a different case for png and jpegs, not so much with svg.
• edent 10y ago
  These aren't just for sites. Android apps quite often contain multiple images in different resolutions. Your phone's memory is being eaten away by developers who don't care about efficiency.
• throwaway2016a 10y ago
  Even at Amazon S3 prices and a million downloads the cost savings of using the SVG for the Github icon is only $1.60 per month. If it took an artist an hour to make at $30 an hour it would take a year and a half to break even.
  • hexmiles 10y ago
    keep in mind that making the size smaller also make your website more light and faster, same thing for android/ios app, where the fact that this icon are in svg format make them scalable at different resolution, screensize and dpi. Image are usualy the main reason to oversize app and webpage.
  • jancsika 10y ago
    That's a restatement of the hacker ethos. I.e., why waste 10 minutes on a boring one-off solution when you can spend 1 month building a library that reduces all future boring one-off solutions to 1 minute?