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How does the optional HTML/CSS Code Optimization work?

April 26, 2017code CSS html optimization

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How does the optional HTML/CSS Code Optimization work?

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To further reduce file sizes, httpZip includes a built-in parser for HTML/CSS Code Optimization that eliminates white space and comments, and in the case of HTML, converts tag names to lower case. Removal of this unnecessary data reduces file size by 10% on average size files. HTTP encoding will then execute the majority of the file’s compression. The unique combination of HTTP compression and the optional HTML/CSS Code Optimization makes httpZip the leader in bandwidth savings on Microsoft IIS platforms. We recommend testing the HTML/CSS compression to see how your pages handle white space and comments removal before moving to a live serving environment. The integrated white space remover can degrade throughput (requests per second) substantially, especially on large pages. HTML/CSS Code Optimization is not enabled by default, and we strongly recommend that it be used only for pages that are also being cached by httpZip. To enable a file for optional HTML/CSS compression on httpZip, f