Title: Minify HTML
Last modified: January 17, 2021

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# Minify HTML

 *  Resolved [Mushlih Almubarak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mushlih/)
 * (@mushlih)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/)
 * Hi
    If I enable minify HTML from the litespeed plugin, which compresses and minifies
   HTML, will that be bad for SEO? Thank you

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 *  [Md Mazedul Islam Khan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mazedulislamkhan/)
 * (@mazedulislamkhan)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/#post-13917912)
 * We can confirm that minifying HTML using a 3rd party modification plugin won’t
   affect anything negatively in terms of SEO. In fact, it’s a best practice and
   it will improve the loading time of your site.
 *  Thread Starter [Mushlih Almubarak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mushlih/)
 * (@mushlih)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/#post-13917919)
 * But this will make the code messy after compressed, won’t this make it difficult
   for Google to index my site?
 *  [Md Mazedul Islam Khan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mazedulislamkhan/)
 * (@mazedulislamkhan)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/#post-13917944)
 * No, not at all. Search engines won’t have any issues crawling the site.
 *  Thread Starter [Mushlih Almubarak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mushlih/)
 * (@mushlih)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/#post-13917947)
 * Then, if I use other optimizations, like minify JS, CSS, etc.
    Will I have problems
   like I mentioned earlier?
 *  [Md Mazedul Islam Khan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mazedulislamkhan/)
 * (@mazedulislamkhan)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/#post-13917955)
 * Not at all, you can use any types of modifications on your website.
 *  Thread Starter [Mushlih Almubarak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mushlih/)
 * (@mushlih)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/#post-13918335)
 * Even if it changes the code and gets rid of some unnecessary code?
 *  [devnihil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devnihil/)
 * (@devnihil)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/#post-13918387)
 * [@mushlih](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mushlih/) Minification doesn’t
   remove code, it removes elements that are nonessential to a machine reading it(
   unnecessary spaces, comments, etc).
 *  Thread Starter [Mushlih Almubarak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mushlih/)
 * (@mushlih)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/#post-13918517)
 * I mean [this setting](https://prnt.sc/x0krwt), is it causing problems with SEO?
 *  [devnihil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devnihil/)
 * (@devnihil)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/#post-13918890)
 * [@mushlih](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mushlih/) Thanks for your reply.
   We reviewed the image, but there are four settings shown here. Which specifically
   did you mean?
 * The only setting we see here that might result in the content being perceptively
   changed is the removal of the `<noscript>` tag. However, all this tag does is
   remove a tag that shows alternate content if the user should have JavaScript 
   disabled in their browser.
 * Disabling JavaScript in a browser is not typical, and furthermore, it would drastically
   impact a user’s experience with or without the `<noscript>` tag. In addition,
   this would in no way impact the SEO ranking, or a search engine’s ability to 
   parse and crawl the content of your page. You can read more about the `<noscript
   >` tag here: [https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_noscript.asp](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_noscript.asp)
 *  Thread Starter [Mushlih Almubarak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mushlih/)
 * (@mushlih)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/#post-13920412)
 * So in essence, can all the settings in that image cause SEO problems?
 *  [Suwash Kunwar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suascat_wp/)
 * (@suascat_wp)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/#post-13920710)
 * In our understanding, all those settings on the screenshot should not cause SEO
   problems on your site as all those options are purely for site speed optimization
   purposes. They don’t affect your site ranking and indexing.
 *  Thread Starter [Mushlih Almubarak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mushlih/)
 * (@mushlih)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/#post-13922132)
 * Then, why did my site traffic decrease after I optimized the LiteSpeed plugin?
 *  [Pcosta88](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pcosta88/)
 * (@pcosta88)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/#post-13922279)
 * Hi,
 * We are not sure why there was an issue with lower traffic when you activated 
   the LiteSpeed plugin. We can only say to contact LiteSpeed plugin authors for
   more information as there may be a setting or a configuration which needs to 
   be set-up.
 * In addition, there was a Google Algorithm update in Dec 2020, so traffic loss
   may be the result of that update. This guide explains more: [https://moz.com/blog/googles-december-2020-core-update](https://moz.com/blog/googles-december-2020-core-update).
 *  Thread Starter [Mushlih Almubarak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mushlih/)
 * (@mushlih)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/#post-13922645)
 * Ok, thank you very much

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 * Last reply from: [Mushlih Almubarak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mushlih/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-html-7/#post-13922645)
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