HTML Shrink

The HTML Shrink application was designed to be a small tool taht reduces the size of HTML and CSS (stylesheet) files by removing unnecessary white space, comments, and other data which may make the file easier to read but does not alter page appearance.

The size of HTML files directly impacts loading time - nothing else can load until it has been read from the HTML file. HTML Shrink typically reduces web page size by around 10%. (Yahoo frontpage: 9.2%, HotBot 11.4%, AltaVista 1.6%, Lycos 14.3%.)

This information is all useful when you are developing Web pages and it certainly should not be thrown away. The solution is not to replace your web pages with "minimised" versions but to develop web pages using the full, commented versions, and then use a utility like this one to strip the human-readable extras from your page before you upload it to the web.

HTML Shrink takes a folder full of your Web site files and makes an exact duplicate of that folder (including subfolders) except that files with a .html, .htm or .css extension are appropriately processed to reduce their size.

This duplicate of the files can either be on your hard disk, or at an FTP site, so you can use HTML Shrink to automate file uploading for you. By default, only files which have changed are uploaded. If you like, you can turn off all the compression options and use HTML Shrink simply to automatically upload your website for you.