Gathering detailed insights and metrics for html-minifier
Gathering detailed insights and metrics for html-minifier
Gathering detailed insights and metrics for html-minifier
Gathering detailed insights and metrics for html-minifier
Javascript-based HTML compressor/minifier (with Node.js support)
npm install html-minifier
97.1
Supply Chain
98.6
Quality
79.6
Maintenance
84
Vulnerability
100
License
Module System
Min. Node Version
Typescript Support
Node Version
NPM Version
4,946 Stars
1,291 Commits
571 Forks
100 Watching
4 Branches
87 Contributors
Updated on 25 Nov 2024
JavaScript (94.89%)
HTML (4.58%)
CSS (0.54%)
Cumulative downloads
Total Downloads
Last day
-7.7%
575,046
Compared to previous day
Last week
1.2%
3,082,097
Compared to previous week
Last month
20.2%
12,572,965
Compared to previous month
Last year
-15.9%
138,634,248
Compared to previous year
HTMLMinifier is a highly configurable, well-tested, JavaScript-based HTML minifier.
See corresponding blog post for all the gory details of how it works, description of each option, testing results and conclusions.
Test suite is available online.
Also see corresponding Ruby wrapper, and for Node.js, Grunt plugin, Gulp module, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
46 | 42 | 46 | 48 | 46 | |
HTMLMinifier | 125 | 98 | 111 | 117 | 111 |
207 | 165 | 200 | 224 | 200 | |
Stack Overflow | 253 | 195 | 207 | 215 | 204 |
Bootstrap CSS | 271 | 260 | 269 | 228 | 269 |
BBC | 298 | 239 | 290 | 291 | 280 |
Amazon | 422 | 316 | 412 | 425 | n/a |
NBC | 553 | 530 | 552 | 553 | 534 |
Wikipedia | 565 | 461 | 548 | 569 | 548 |
New York Times | 678 | 606 | 675 | 670 | n/a |
Eloquent Javascript | 870 | 815 | 840 | 864 | n/a |
ES6 table | 5911 | 5051 | 5595 | n/a | n/a |
ES draft | 6126 | 5495 | 5664 | 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 | [ /^!/ ] |
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 UglifyJS) | false (could be true , Object , Function(text, inline) ) |
minifyURLs | Minify URLs in various attributes (uses relateurl) | false (could be String , Object , Function(text) ) |
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 -->
.
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.
From NPM for use as a command line app:
1npm install html-minifier -g
From NPM for programmatic use:
1npm install html-minifier
From Git:
1git clone git://github.com/kangax/html-minifier.git 2cd html-minifier 3npm link .
Note that almost all options are disabled by default. For command line usage please see html-minifier --help
for a list of available options. Experiment and find what works best for you and your project.
html-minifier --collapse-whitespace --remove-comments --remove-optional-tags --remove-redundant-attributes --remove-script-type-attributes --remove-tag-whitespace --use-short-doctype --minify-css true --minify-js true
1var minify = require('html-minifier').minify; 2var result = minify('<p title="blah" id="moo">foo</p>', { 3 removeAttributeQuotes: true 4}); 5result; // '<p title=blah id=moo>foo</p>'
1const { src, dest, series } = require('gulp'); 2const htmlMinify = require('html-minifier'); 3 4const options = { 5 includeAutoGeneratedTags: true, 6 removeAttributeQuotes: true, 7 removeComments: true, 8 removeRedundantAttributes: true, 9 removeScriptTypeAttributes: true, 10 removeStyleLinkTypeAttributes: true, 11 sortClassName: true, 12 useShortDoctype: true, 13 collapseWhitespace: true 14}; 15 16function html() { 17 return src('app/**/*.html') 18 .on('data', function(file) { 19 const buferFile = Buffer.from(htmlMinify.minify(file.contents.toString(), options)) 20 return file.contents = buferFile 21 }) 22 .pipe(dest('build')) 23} 24 25exports.html = series(html)
Benchmarks for minified HTML:
1node benchmark.js
The latest stable version of the package.
Stable Version
1
7.5/10
Summary
kangax html-minifier REDoS vulnerability
Affected Versions
<= 4.0.0
Patched Versions
Reason
no dangerous workflow patterns detected
Reason
no binaries found in the repo
Reason
license file detected
Details
Reason
SAST tool detected but not run on all commits
Details
Reason
Found 10/25 approved changesets -- score normalized to 4
Reason
dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 1
Details
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
project is not fuzzed
Details
Reason
22 existing vulnerabilities detected
Details
Score
Last Scanned on 2024-11-18
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