Minifiers don't just remove whitespace. Eliminating comments, for example, can save a lot (although it seems that most HTML out there is poorly commented in the

Minifiers don't just remove whitespace. Eliminating comments, for example, can save a lot (although it seems that most HTML out there is poorly commented in the first place). A smart minifier can also drop optional closing tags like </li> for a bit more gain (although I don't know of a minifier that does).