diff --git a/packages/frontend/workspace/src/blob/__tests__/util.spec.ts b/packages/frontend/workspace/src/blob/__tests__/util.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1b3e0fe20a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/frontend/workspace/src/blob/__tests__/util.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import { Buffer } from 'node:buffer';
+
+import { describe, expect, test } from 'vitest';
+
+import { isSvgBuffer } from '../util';
+
+describe('isSvgBuffer', () => {
+  test('basic', async () => {
+    expect(isSvgBuffer(Buffer.from('<svg></svg>'))).toBe(true);
+    expect(isSvgBuffer(Buffer.from(' \n\r\t<svg></svg>'))).toBe(true);
+    expect(isSvgBuffer(Buffer.from('<123>'))).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/frontend/workspace/src/blob/util.ts b/packages/frontend/workspace/src/blob/util.ts
index e5c206b1fe..2ff1d9e1e7 100644
--- a/packages/frontend/workspace/src/blob/util.ts
+++ b/packages/frontend/workspace/src/blob/util.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,39 @@
 import isSvg from 'is-svg';
 
+function fastCheckIsNotSvg(buffer: Uint8Array) {
+  // check first non-whitespace character is not '<svg'
+  for (let i = 0; i < buffer.length; i++) {
+    const ch = buffer[i];
+
+    // skip whitespace
+    if (
+      ch === 0x20 /* \s */ ||
+      ch === 0x09 /* \t */ ||
+      ch === 0x0b /* \v */ ||
+      ch === 0x0c /* \f */ ||
+      ch === 0x0a /* \n */ ||
+      ch === 0x0d /* \r */ ||
+      ch === 0xa0
+    ) {
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    return !(
+      buffer[i] === /* '<' */ 0x3c &&
+      buffer[i + 1] === /* 's' */ 0x73 &&
+      buffer[i + 2] === /* 'v' */ 0x76 &&
+      buffer[i + 3] === /* 'g' */ 0x67
+    );
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
 // this has a overhead of converting to string for testing if it is svg.
-// is there a more performant way?
 export function isSvgBuffer(buffer: Uint8Array) {
+  if (fastCheckIsNotSvg(buffer)) {
+    return false;
+  }
   const decoder = new TextDecoder('utf-8');
   const str = decoder.decode(buffer);
   return isSvg(str);