HTML Compress compresses HTML by removing unnecessary white space characters such as carriage returns, line feeds, spaces and tabs - in effect it is a lossy compression. It also has the capability to remove certain HTML tags. JavaScript, CSS and VBScript can also be subjected to similar compression using this program. Because of the extensible nature of HTML Compress, it can be configured to allow it to optimize other SGML based formats too - basically anything using angled brackets to define "tags". Unlike some compression software, HTML Compress does not remove any the terminating tag of a tag pair.

Compression of HTML allows it to download faster, display faster ( the parser does not have as much junk to deal with), take less space on web servers and end users system, decrease loads on a server.

HTML Compress is fully configurable not only allowing you to set options for individual tags, HTML Compress will allow you to set options depending on individual attributes through pattern matching - allowing higher compression rates.