[indrora]

I was curious why and the answer is stupider than you'd think:

The circle in the image is an embedded PNG which has not been pngcrushed at all.

Instead of building a few gradients out, it looks like whoever did the export to svg out of Illustrator or whatever let it export this horrendously large circle. With a gradient. That costs 2.5MB.

[tencentshill]

Maybe it's an easy way to speed up the page load if the boss ever asks them to. You have to carve out a few CYA options when working for a hostile manager.

[alaskalol]

E-comm team has the highest turn over, maybe it is an easy CYA fix, maybe they just followed whatever design said the logo should be. Great catch though.

[djoldman]

Looks like that's accurate. Deleting the png from the defs makes the svg 11kb.