Gathering detailed insights and metrics for html-minifier-terser
Gathering detailed insights and metrics for html-minifier-terser
Gathering detailed insights and metrics for html-minifier-terser
Gathering detailed insights and metrics for html-minifier-terser
@types/html-minifier-terser
TypeScript definitions for html-minifier-terser
rsbuild-plugin-html-minifier-terser
An Rsbuild plugin to use [html-minifier-terser](https://github.com/terser/html-minifier-terser) to minify the HTML outputs.
express-minify-html-2
Express.js middleware wrapper around html-minifier-terser
gulp-minifier
Minify HTML, JS, CSS with html-minifier, terser, clean-css.
actively maintained fork of html-minifier - minify HTML, CSS and JS code using terser - supports ES6 code
npm install html-minifier-terser
94.3
Supply Chain
98.1
Quality
78
Maintenance
100
Vulnerability
100
License
Module System
Min. Node Version
Typescript Support
Node Version
NPM Version
385 Stars
1,499 Commits
32 Forks
9 Watching
4 Branches
88 Contributors
Updated on 22 Nov 2024
JavaScript (99.92%)
Shell (0.08%)
Cumulative downloads
Total Downloads
Last day
-1.7%
2,311,178
Compared to previous day
Last week
4%
12,041,431
Compared to previous week
Last month
9.9%
50,366,859
Compared to previous month
Last year
-7.8%
576,632,844
Compared to previous year
HTMLMinifier is a highly configurable, well-tested, JavaScript-based HTML minifier.
From NPM for use as a command line app:
1npm install html-minifier-terser -g
From NPM for programmatic use:
1npm install html-minifier-terser
Note that almost all options are disabled by default. Experiment and find what works best for you and your project.
For command line usage please see html-minifier-terser --help
for a list of available options.
Sample command line:
1html-minifier-terser --collapse-whitespace --remove-comments --minify-js true
1const { minify } = require('html-minifier-terser'); 2 3const result = await minify('<p title="blah" id="moo">foo</p>', { 4 removeAttributeQuotes: true, 5}); 6result; // '<p title=blah id=moo>foo</p>'
See corresponding blog post for all the gory details of how it works, description of each option, testing results and conclusions.
Also see corresponding Ruby wrapper, and for Node.js, Grunt plugin, Gulp plugin, Koa middleware wrapper and Express middleware wrapper.
For lint-like capabilities take a look at HTMLLint.
How does HTMLMinifier compare to other solutions — HTML Minifier from Will Peavy (1st result in Google search for "html minifier") as well as htmlcompressor.com and minimize?
Site | Original size (KB) | HTMLMinifier | minimize | Will Peavy | htmlcompressor.com |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
52 | 48 | 52 | 54 | n/a | |
Stack Overflow | 177 | 143 | 154 | 154 | n/a |
HTMLMinifier | 252 | 171 | 230 | 250 | n/a |
Bootstrap CSS | 271 | 260 | 269 | 229 | n/a |
BBC | 355 | 324 | 353 | 344 | n/a |
Amazon | 466 | 430 | 456 | 474 | n/a |
469 | 394 | 462 | 513 | n/a | |
Wikipedia | 703 | 569 | 682 | 708 | n/a |
Eloquent Javascript | 870 | 815 | 840 | 864 | n/a |
NBC | 1701 | 1566 | 1689 | 1705 | n/a |
New York Times | 1731 | 1583 | 1726 | 1680 | n/a |
ES draft | 6296 | 5538 | 5733 | n/a | n/a |
Most of the options are disabled by default.
Option | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
caseSensitive | Treat attributes in case sensitive manner (useful for custom HTML tags) | false |
collapseBooleanAttributes | Omit attribute values from boolean attributes | false |
collapseInlineTagWhitespace | Don't leave any spaces between display:inline; elements when collapsing. Must be used in conjunction with collapseWhitespace=true | false |
collapseWhitespace | Collapse white space that contributes to text nodes in a document tree | false |
conservativeCollapse | Always collapse to 1 space (never remove it entirely). Must be used in conjunction with collapseWhitespace=true | false |
continueOnParseError | Handle parse errors instead of aborting. | false |
customAttrAssign | Arrays of regex'es that allow to support custom attribute assign expressions (e.g. '<div flex?="{{mode != cover}}"></div>' ) | [ ] |
customAttrCollapse | Regex that specifies custom attribute to strip newlines from (e.g. /ng-class/ ) | |
customAttrSurround | Arrays of regex'es that allow to support custom attribute surround expressions (e.g. <input {{#if value}}checked="checked"{{/if}}> ) | [ ] |
customEventAttributes | Arrays of regex'es that allow to support custom event attributes for minifyJS (e.g. ng-click ) | [ /^on[a-z]{3,}$/ ] |
decodeEntities | Use direct Unicode characters whenever possible | false |
html5 | Parse input according to HTML5 specifications | true |
ignoreCustomComments | Array of regex'es that allow to ignore certain comments, when matched | [ /^!/, /^\s*#/ ] |
ignoreCustomFragments | Array of regex'es that allow to ignore certain fragments, when matched (e.g. <?php ... ?> , {{ ... }} , etc.) | [ /<%[\s\S]*?%>/, /<\?[\s\S]*?\?>/ ] |
includeAutoGeneratedTags | Insert tags generated by HTML parser | true |
keepClosingSlash | Keep the trailing slash on singleton elements | false |
maxLineLength | Specify a maximum line length. Compressed output will be split by newlines at valid HTML split-points | |
minifyCSS | Minify CSS in style elements and style attributes (uses clean-css) | false (could be true , Object , Function(text, type) ) |
minifyJS | Minify JavaScript in script elements and event attributes (uses Terser) | false (could be true , Object , Function(text, inline) ) |
minifyURLs | Minify URLs in various attributes (uses relateurl) | false (could be String , Object , Function(text) ) |
noNewlinesBeforeTagClose | Never add a newline before a tag that closes an element | false |
preserveLineBreaks | Always collapse to 1 line break (never remove it entirely) when whitespace between tags include a line break. Must be used in conjunction with collapseWhitespace=true | false |
preventAttributesEscaping | Prevents the escaping of the values of attributes | false |
processConditionalComments | Process contents of conditional comments through minifier | false |
processScripts | Array of strings corresponding to types of script elements to process through minifier (e.g. text/ng-template , text/x-handlebars-template , etc.) | [ ] |
quoteCharacter | Type of quote to use for attribute values (' or ") | |
removeAttributeQuotes | Remove quotes around attributes when possible | false |
removeComments | Strip HTML comments | false |
removeEmptyAttributes | Remove all attributes with whitespace-only values | false (could be true , Function(attrName, tag) ) |
removeEmptyElements | Remove all elements with empty contents | false |
removeOptionalTags | Remove optional tags | false |
removeRedundantAttributes | Remove attributes when value matches default. | false |
removeScriptTypeAttributes | Remove type="text/javascript" from script tags. Other type attribute values are left intact | false |
removeStyleLinkTypeAttributes | Remove type="text/css" from style and link tags. Other type attribute values are left intact | false |
removeTagWhitespace | Remove space between attributes whenever possible. Note that this will result in invalid HTML! | false |
sortAttributes | Sort attributes by frequency | false |
sortClassName | Sort style classes by frequency | false |
trimCustomFragments | Trim white space around ignoreCustomFragments . | false |
useShortDoctype | Replaces the doctype with the short (HTML5) doctype | false |
Minifier options like sortAttributes
and sortClassName
won't impact the plain-text size of the output. However, they form long repetitive chains of characters that should improve compression ratio of gzip used in HTTP compression.
If you have chunks of markup you would like preserved, you can wrap them <!-- htmlmin:ignore -->
.
You can minify script tags with JSON-LD by setting the option { processScripts: ['application/ld+json'] }
. Note that this minification is very rudimentary, it is mainly useful for removing newlines and excessive whitespace.
SVG tags are automatically recognized, and when they are minified, both case-sensitivity and closing-slashes are preserved, regardless of the minification settings used for the rest of the file.
HTMLMinifier can't work with invalid or partial chunks of markup. This is because it parses markup into a tree structure, then modifies it (removing anything that was specified for removal, ignoring anything that was specified to be ignored, etc.), then it creates a markup out of that tree and returns it.
Input markup (e.g. <p id="">foo
)
↓
Internal representation of markup in a form of tree (e.g. { tag: "p", attr: "id", children: ["foo"] }
)
↓
Transformation of internal representation (e.g. removal of id
attribute)
↓
Output of resulting markup (e.g. <p>foo</p>
)
HTMLMinifier can't know that original markup was only half of the tree; it does its best to try to parse it as a full tree and it loses information about tree being malformed or partial in the beginning. As a result, it can't create a partial/malformed tree at the time of the output.
Benchmarks for minified HTML:
1cd benchmarks 2npm install 3npm run benchmark
1npm run serve
No vulnerabilities found.
Reason
no dangerous workflow patterns detected
Reason
no binaries found in the repo
Reason
license file detected
Details
Reason
dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5
Details
Reason
Found 7/28 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2
Reason
0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
Reason
detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
Details
Reason
no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
Reason
security policy file not detected
Details
Reason
SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
Details
Reason
project is not fuzzed
Details
Reason
13 existing vulnerabilities detected
Details
Score
Last Scanned on 2024-11-18
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