


removing hidden elements, removes deactivated layers.removing comments, can make manual editing of the file more difficult.removing editor metadata can be a copyright violation if resharing others work.svgo is in all fair benchmarks the worst in breaking svgs, see e.g.Using SVGO we can remove a lot of redundant and useless information such as editor metadata, comments, hidden elements, default or unknown values and other stuff that can be removed or converted often without affecting SVG rendering result.

The default Inkscape SVG files produces a lot of inkscape metadata for edition purposes since SVG is the default file extension at inkscape. This is an extension to save and optimize SVG files with SVGO at Inkscape, it is an alternative to the already implemented optimization Tool: scour
