Remove comments

HTML

Strips HTML comments from the markup.

Filter remove_comments · Filter docs

A module filter.

Both frames render identically — that's the goal. The win is in the bytes and requests below, not the look. They're served live by the mod_pagespeed module on demo-httpd-1.1.modpagespeed.com; the optimized frame applies only this filter. Right after a cache purge it may briefly match the original while the worker rewrites it — reload to see the result.

Measured impact

HTML size

439 B 283 B

−36%

What changed in the source

The page's HTML, before and after this filter. Red lines are removed, green lines are added.

                
                  
                      … 2 unchanged lines …
                    

                            <title>remove_comments example</title>
                    

                          </head>
                    

                          <body>
                    

                      -     <!-- This comment will be removed -->
                    

                      -     <!-- google_ad_section_start -- retained due to RetainComment directive in .htaccess -->
                    

                      +     
                    

                      +     
                    

                            <div>Hello, world!</div>
                    

                      -     <!-- Apply IE-specific CSS -->
                    

                      +     
                    

                            <!-- [if IE ]>
                    

                              <link href="iecss.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="This IE directive will be preserved">
                    

                            <![endif]-->

Run this on your own site

This is one of 49 filters the mod_pagespeed module applies in place — self-hosted on Apache, nginx, and IIS. Install and run it: it optimizes right away and adds an the optimized response headers shown above. Open source under the Apache License 2.0 — free in development and in production.

Download & run

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