HTML Minifier

HTML minification removes characters a browser doesn't need to build the page: comments and the whitespace between tags. The parsed result — the DOM the browser actually constructs from ordinary markup — is identical; only the byte count drops. For a typical hand-written page the raw saving is modest (often 10–20%) because HTML already compresses well with gzip and Brotli, but minification still helps where markup ships on every single load: a server-rendered fragment returned by an API on each request, an email template duplicated across thousands of sends, or an embed snippet pasted onto other people's sites. This tool is a lightweight minifier: it strips HTML comments and collapses runs of whitespace, which is perfect for simple, self-contained snippets. It is intentionally not whitespace-aware, so it should be used carefully on documents that contain whitespace-sensitive regions — anything inside <pre>, <code>, or <textarea>, content styled with 'white-space: pre', or inline <script> where line breaks matter — because collapsing the spacing there can change what renders or how code behaves. For minifying whole production pages, let a build-time tool like html-minifier-terser handle it; it understands those special elements and preserves them. Reach for this on-demand minifier when there's no build step in the loop and your snippet is plain markup.