the author is also using many large, multi-megabyte photos in their travel posts, so I'm not sure how significant the size of the SVG content is, in comparison
That means users are staring at blank for longer. That can really stink on a poor connection.
Images are requested at a lower priority and so don't cause the same problems for rendering. But it's a great idea to compress them, too, and use something like `srcset` to send an appropriately sized version!
