Cleanup HTML code

If I don't care about bandwidth, should I leave "Cleanup HTML code" off? Does the load caused by the cleanup outweigh the load caused by the slightly larger files?

It's not that heavy of a process. If you don't have any existing load issues now, then I recommend you keep it enabled.

So turning it off will reduce load then? We do have times when load is a problem (during peak times).

This is something you want to have enabled. It should not contribute very much to load. It's just going to send out a network connection to each update service.

What exactly does "clean up html" do? I think I've had it off all along.

If you look at the source code of this site, lots of empty spaces and all html comments are removed. This helps in reducing the size of the page and thus reduces bandwidth usage. This is HTML Cleanup.

This option works good only if you have properly written and validated markup.

One side effect of enabling is that the vbulletin option of "Add Template Name in HTML Comments" does not work as the vbseo option overrides it and remove all the comments.

Thank you, webwizzy. I am afraid to try it because I am not sure each of my pages validate. Do you know whether this has a proven SEO benefit?

Thanks