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Asked: 2026-05-27T16:05:16+00:00

Is it a good idea to minify the jQuery or even the HTML on

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Is it a good idea to minify the jQuery or even the HTML on my website? How could I do this and still have a nice structure to work with?

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    Smaller footprint. Also, if you view it in Chrome, it’s not on one line.

    Google talks about their methodology in this document:

    Minify HTML

    Overview

    Compacting HTML code, including any inline JavaScript and CSS contained in it, can save many bytes of data and speed up downloading, parsing, and execution time.

    Details

    Minifying HTML has the same benefits as those for minifying CSS and JS: reducing network latency, enhancing compression, and faster browser loading and execution. Moreover, HTML frequently contains inline JS code (in <script> tags) and inline CSS (in <style> tags), so it is useful to minify these as well.

    Note: This rule is experimental and is currently focused on size reduction rather than strict HTML well-formedness. Future versions of the rule will also take into account correctness. For details on the current behavior, see the Page Speed wiki.

    Tip: When you run Page Speed against a page referencing HTML files, it automatically runs the Page Speed HTML compactor (which will in turn apply JSMin and cssmin.js to any inline JavaScript and CSS) on the files and saves the minified output to a configurable directory.

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