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 compress other SGML based formats too - basically anything using angled brackets to define "tags". 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.