diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 137ad18..20af256 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
     "@babel/runtime": "^7.14.6",
     "babel-runtime": "~6.25.0",
     "color": "^3.1.3",
+    "html-minifier-terser": "*",
     "react-reconciler": "^0.26.1"
   },
   "babel": {
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index 2716068..3b875ea 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { minify } from 'html-minifier-terser'
 import ReactDOMServer from 'react-dom/server';
 import mjml2html from 'mjml';
 
@@ -47,10 +48,22 @@ function render(email, options = {}) {
   const defaults = {
     keepComments: false,
     beautify: false,
-    minify: true,
     validationLevel: 'strict',
   };
-  return mjml2html(renderToMjml(email), { ...defaults, ...options });
+
+  const html = mjml2html(renderToMjml(email), { ...defaults, ...options, minify: false });
+
+  if (options.minify) {
+      return minify(html, {
+          caseSensitive: true,
+          collapseWhitespace: true,
+          minifyCSS: true,
+          removeComments: true,
+          removeEmptyAttributes: true
+      });
+  }
+
+  return html;
 }
 
 function renderToMjml(email) {