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Would the compression work better if you inlined the SVG and served the whole HTML+SVG as one gzipped file?

I also think that depending on the SVG complexity, you might shave a few bits, but at the expense of more complex processing - polygon-path vs two square in this example...

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That is another thing to consider. Google's mod_pagespeed, iirc, analyzes image/css/js file size and whatnot and determines whether it's more effective to inline it or to load it separately (and does so automatically)

Not if you expected multiple pageviews with that image. In which case it gets loaded once and gets cached.

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