Why is canvas and not svg used in statistics graphs on VKontakte?

Question

Canvas

After all, graphs written on canvas (unlike svg) need to be redrawn every time the user interacts with it.
Explain, please, to an inexperienced person.

Answer 1

canvas is faster and more flexible, drawing programmatically on the svg-path is still a problem ...
And about redrawing, even a complete redrawing will work faster, and people do partial rules, only what has changed

Answer 2

On canvas, you can use WebGL rendering, which is itself faster (GPU) and much more flexible than SVG, to style and create chart interactivity.

Answer 3

Option 0: the developer who did this, Google gave a solution on the canvas
Option 1: the developer who did it, Google gave the solution on the canvas when the developer was doing a similar task before
Performance tests on the client are done by a few