Using Optimization Tools

Using Optimization Tools

Content optimization tools can be used to reduce the overall footprint of content considerably. These tools remove white space, redundant tags and attributes, optional quotes and closing tags (note that this can violate HTML/XHTML), and comments, and minimize colors and character entities.

However, the techniques that reduce the size of the content are counter-productive from a content-debugging perspective. It can be difficult to debug a content problem on optimized content due to the lack of comments, white space, and so on.

To work around this problem, you can implement a process to perfect and test the content before optimizing, and then re-test after optimizing to ensure no errors are introduced.