title: How to handle slow rendering SVG images?
body: <p>We are building a mobile app that uses an embedded webview to display an operator's manual that has a lot of technical illustrations in it. The illustrations are coming from EPS vector files that we convert to SVG to get crisp and scalable images.</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately we have a few cases where the images get very big and slow. For example we have one SVG image which is 4.5MB and consists of 23000 individual paths. This image shows almost instantly on iOS but takes about 4 seconds to render on a modern Android phone which severely degrades the user experience.</p>
  
  <p>We have thousands of operator's manuals in dozens of languages so we can't really do any manual tweaks on individual images. With this constraint, what are the best strategies do handle slow rendering SVG images?</p>