Silverstripe HTML Minifier

This module minifies the HTML output of a Silverstripe site using the HtmlMin package.

Requirements

The current major version supports:

• Silverstripe CMS 6.x
• PHP 8.3+

Silverstripe CMS 4 and 5 are supported by the 1.x release line.

Installation

For Silverstripe CMS 6:

composer require dorsetdigital/silverstripe-htmlminifier:^2

For Silverstripe CMS 4 or 5:

composer require dorsetdigital/silverstripe-htmlminifier:^1

Then flush your Silverstripe configuration cache.

Usage

The module is disabled by default. Enable it in your project configuration:

---
Name: minifierconfig
---

DorsetDigital\SSMinifier\Middleware:
  enable: true
  enable_in_dev: false

The module configuration options are:

• enable - enable HTML minification. Defaults to false.
• enable_in_dev - enable minification while Silverstripe is running in dev mode. Defaults to false.
• options - optional configuration passed to HtmlMin.

If no options are supplied, HtmlMin's own defaults are used.

HtmlMin options

HtmlMin provides a number of options for controlling the minification process. These can be configured directly through Silverstripe YAML using the method name as the option key.

For example:

DorsetDigital\SSMinifier\Middleware:
  enable: true
  options:
    doRemoveComments: true
    doRemoveOmittedQuotes: true
    doRemoveOmittedHtmlTags: true
    doSortCssClassNames: true
    doSortHtmlAttributes: true
    doMinifyJavaScript: false

Only options explicitly supported by this module are passed to HtmlMin. Unsupported or unknown options are ignored.

The following HtmlMin options are supported:

• doMakeSameDomainsLinksRelative
• doMinifyJavaScript
• doRemoveComments
• doRemoveDefaultAttributes
• doRemoveDeprecatedAnchorName
• doRemoveDeprecatedScriptCharsetAttribute
• doRemoveDeprecatedTypeFromScriptTag
• doRemoveDeprecatedTypeFromStylesheetLink
• doRemoveEmptyAttributes
• doRemoveHttpPrefixFromAttributes
• doRemoveHttpsPrefixFromAttributes
• doRemoveOmittedHtmlTags
• doRemoveOmittedQuotes
• doRemoveSpacesBetweenTags
• doRemoveValueFromEmptyInput
• doSortCssClassNames
• doSortHtmlAttributes
• doSumUpWhitespace

HtmlMin's setLocalDomains option is also supported and accepts an array of domain names. It can be used with doMakeSameDomainsLinksRelative:

DorsetDigital\SSMinifier\Middleware:
  enable: true
  options:
    setLocalDomains:
      - example.com
      - www.example.com
    doMakeSameDomainsLinksRelative: true

The values are passed directly to HtmlMin, so its defaults and behaviour remain authoritative. See the HtmlMin documentation for details of each option.

Notes

• CMS/admin requests are not minified.
• XML sitemap responses are not minified.
• Only HTML and XHTML responses are minified.
• Responses without a Content-Type header are treated as HTML for backwards compatibility.
• JavaScript minification is controlled by HtmlMin and is not enabled by this module unless configured.

Development

Install the development dependencies and run the test suite with:

composer install
composer test

The test suite covers HTML minification and ensures that non-HTML, CMS/admin and sitemap responses are left untouched.

Credits

• Uses the excellent HtmlMin package.
• As always, thanks to the Silverstripe core team for all their hard work.