Architectural impact of the SVG-based graphical components in web applications

The present work is intended for showing the architectural impact in the use of the WIMP components present in the graphic user interface (GUI) using the SVG technology. We have made several experiments in a client server environment and we measured the CPU utilization, memory usage and response time when SVG-based graphical component are used in WEB applications. We use three navigators (Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera), and we analyzed as those metrics changes when single and complex images are used, and we note a good behavior of the SVG format since our test obtained a confidence level superior to 95%.