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rehype plugins to minify HTML.

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What is this?

This GitHub repository is a monorepo that contains a couple utilities, ±30 plugins, and 1 preset to minify HTML:

In
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en-GB">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-US">
    <script src="index.js" type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
      alert(true);
    </script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css" type="text/css">
    <title>Foo  &amp;  bar</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1 class="foo foo">bar  bar</h1>
    <p id="alfred" id="alfred">  <strong>foo</strong> <em>bar</em> </p>
    <button type="BUTTON" onclick="javascript:return false">Alpha</button>
  </body>
</html>
Out
<!doctypehtml><html lang=en><meta charset=utf8><script src=index.js></script><link href=index.css rel=stylesheet><title>Foo &amp bar</title><h1 class=foo>bar bar</h1><p id=alfred><strong>foo</strong> <em>bar</em></p><button onclick=return!1 type=button>Alpha</button>

When should I use this?

This project is useful when you want to improve the size of HTML documents. It’s particularly useful when you’re already using rehype (and remark?) to process HTML.

Presets

Presets are combinations of plugins. One preset is maintained here:

Plugins

The following plugins maintained here are included in the above preset.

The following plugins are not included because they are potentially dangerous, can make sites slower in certain cases, or need extra configuration. Read their readmes carefully before using:

Also: pass allowDangerousCharacters to rehype-stringify if you trust your content.

Benchmark

Here’s a benchmark comparing the results from html-minifier and rehype-minify. To summarize: differences are negligible, in fact, minifying HTML doesn’t matter much. What does matter is using good compressions, such as gzip. Note: html-minifier crashes on stackoverflow.

name raw gzip
original rehype-minify html-minifier original rehype-minify html-minifier
amazon 446.35KB 7.74% 8.83% 114.03KB 6.38% 6.75%
bbc 293.18KB 3.65% 3.45% 36.3KB 1.72% 1.71%
bootstrap 35.18KB 21.66% 22.08% 8.4KB 4.85% 5.08%
compat table 7.6MB 16.67% 16.97% 241.77KB 3.69% 5.51%
ecmascript 6.58MB 9.55% 10.09% 790.72KB 5.26% 5.43%
eloquent 80.09KB 6.43% 6.45% 19.13KB 1.24% 1.26%
github 184.92KB 16.86% 16.18% 34.39KB 7.00% 7.20%
google 13.01KB 7.60% 7.56% 5.75KB 4.56% 4.26%
guardian 929.59KB 3.76% 4.20% 128.07KB 2.78% 2.93%
html 11.17MB 3.28% 3.31% 1.66MB 5.41% 5.49%
linkedin 84.47KB 38.03% 37.97% 10.54KB 13.70% 13.43%
microsoft 197.87KB 8.82% 21.02% 40.16KB 4.44% 6.85%
nbc 1.48MB 5.65% 5.79% 214.5KB 1.88% 1.77%
npm 23.12KB 8.31% 7.89% 7.13KB 4.36% 3.99%
nytimes 1.17MB 8.90% 8.59% 123.83KB 4.42% 4.12%
rocketchat 186.83KB 12.15% 💥 28.81KB 7.10% 💥
slack 119.24KB 4.81% 3.94% 35.76KB 1.95% 1.55%
stackoverflow 117.91KB 31.43% 33.03% 22.1KB 9.95% 10.84%
twitter 42.86KB 9.40% 9.11% 13.33KB 3.70% 3.45%
vice 182.35KB 5.29% 4.91% 40.65KB 4.89% 4.70%
wikipedia 658.95KB 6.06% 6.81% 126.5KB 1.89% 2.12%
total 31.52MB 29.07MB 29.02MB 3.65MB 3.48MB 3.48MB

Huge differences in results are suspicious and may point to bugs.

💥 — Crash.

Security

Use of rehype-preset-minify is safe by default, if the tree is already safe. As rehype works on HTML, and improper use of HTML can open you up to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, use of rehype can also be unsafe. Use rehype-sanitize to make the tree safe.

To further optimize the result disregarding security, use the extra plugins listed above and pass allowDangerousCharacters to rehype-stringify.

Related

Contribute

See contributing.md in rehypejs/.github for ways to get started. See support.md for ways to get help.

This project has a code of conduct. By interacting with this repository, organization, or community you agree to abide by its terms.

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MIT © Titus Wormer

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