Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and body tags

Re:Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and bo... by malvosenior on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @11:36AM (#19971123)

> For file size optimization and scannability purposes, consider omitting optional tags

They're seriously going to say that removing `<html></html>` is a file size optimization? Why does this make it easier to scan?

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Re:Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and bo... by yoz-y on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @11:43AM (#19971221)

For visual inspection removing html, head and body also gives you 2 additional indentation levels (of course this depends on your indentation style).

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Re:Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and bo... by falsedan on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @11:39AM (#19971164)

for googlebot, naturally

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