Features

SVGs that actually
ship lean.

PicSquish optimises SVG files — stripping editor bloat, simplifying paths, and removing redundant markup — so your icons and illustrations load faster without losing a pixel of quality.

The Problem

SVGs exported from design tools are rarely production-ready. Figma, Illustrator, and Sketch embed a lot that browsers don’t need.

Editor metadata

<metadata> blocks with app version strings, creation timestamps, and tool-specific namespaces. Invisible to users, but they add weight to every request.

Redundant structure

Empty <g> groups with no styling, nested elements that could be collapsed, and xmlns attributes that browsers ignore.

Unoptimised path data

Paths exported with eight decimal places of precision when two will do. Redundant move commands. Transforms that could be baked into coordinates.

Comments and whitespace

Human-readable formatting, commented-out layers, and inline styles that repeat the same value multiple times.

A typical exported SVG can be 30–60% larger than it needs to be. For icons loaded on every page, or illustrations embedded in emails, that adds up.

The Solution

PicSquish runs your SVGs through an SVGO-style optimisation pipeline — the same technique used by the best SVG tooling, built directly into your image processing workflow.

What gets removed

  • Editor metadata and comments
  • Unused namespace declarations
  • Redundant group elements
  • Unnecessary whitespace

What gets simplified

  • Path data — reduced decimal precision, collapsed redundant commands
  • Transforms — collapsed into path coordinates where possible
  • Style attributes — normalised to shortest equivalent form

Nothing visible is touched

  • All visible shapes, fills, strokes, and gradients
  • viewBox and sizing attributes
  • Accessibility attributes — title, desc, aria-label
  • Animation elements
  • .svgz files (gzip-compressed SVG) — optimised and re-exported

In your workflow

Batch optimisation

Drop a folder of icons from your design handoff and optimise the lot in one go. Results drop straight into your project without any further processing.

Who it’s for

Frontend developers

Optimise icon sets before committing them to a design system or component library. Smaller SVGs mean faster page loads and less data transferred on every visit.

Designers

Ship leaner SVG exports to developers without learning a CLI tool or adding another step to your handoff process.

No other desktop image converter offers SVG optimisation alongside format conversion, responsive set generation, and design tools. One less tool in your workflow.

Leaner icons. Faster pages.

One less tool in your workflow.

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