Don’t bother using HTML white-space removal to speed up a web site

Removing HTML white-space (spaces, tabs, blank lines, and comments) makes a file slightly smaller and faster to send to a site visitor. The improvement you get depends upon how verbose your HTML is to start with. This article uses the HTML Tidy optimizer and measures the improvement for a sample web site and 22 different standard themes or page templates. Each theme generates different HTML and shows a different level of improvement from HTML optimization. Unfortunately, in all cases the improvement is tiny and probably not worth the effort.

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