diff --git a/hakyll.cabal b/hakyll.cabal
--- a/hakyll.cabal
+++ b/hakyll.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:    hakyll
-Version: 4.1.0.0
+Version: 4.1.1.0
 
 Synopsis: A static website compiler library
 Description:
@@ -176,9 +176,9 @@
   Build-Depends:
     HUnit                      >= 1.2 && < 1.3,
     QuickCheck                 >= 2.4 && < 2.6,
-    test-framework             >= 0.4 && < 0.7,
-    test-framework-hunit       >= 0.2 && < 0.3,
-    test-framework-quickcheck2 >= 0.2 && < 0.3,
+    test-framework             >= 0.4 && < 0.9,
+    test-framework-hunit       >= 0.2 && < 0.4,
+    test-framework-quickcheck2 >= 0.2 && < 0.4,
     -- Copy pasted from hakyll dependencies:
     base         >= 4      && < 5,
     binary       >= 0.5    && < 0.7,
diff --git a/src/Hakyll/Web/Html.hs b/src/Hakyll/Web/Html.hs
--- a/src/Hakyll/Web/Html.hs
+++ b/src/Hakyll/Web/Html.hs
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 import           Data.Char                       (digitToInt, intToDigit,
                                                   isDigit, toLower)
 import           Data.List                       (isPrefixOf)
+import qualified Data.Set                        as S
 import           System.FilePath                 (joinPath, splitPath,
                                                   takeDirectory)
 import           Text.Blaze.Html                 (toHtml)
@@ -71,13 +72,20 @@
     attr (k, v)          = (k, if isUrlAttribute k then f v else v)
 
 
--- | Customized TagSoup renderer. (The default TagSoup renderer escape CSS
--- within style tags.)
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- | Customized TagSoup renderer. The default TagSoup renderer escape CSS
+-- within style tags, and doesn't properly minimize.
 renderTags' :: [TS.Tag String] -> String
 renderTags' = TS.renderTagsOptions TS.renderOptions
     { TS.optRawTag   = (`elem` ["script", "style"]) . map toLower
-    , TS.optMinimize = (`elem` ["br", "img"])
+    , TS.optMinimize = (`S.member` minimize) . map toLower
     }
+  where
+    -- A list of elements which must be minimized
+    minimize = S.fromList
+        [ "area", "br", "col", "embed", "hr", "img", "input", "meta", "link"
+        , "param"
+        ]
 
 
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/tests/Hakyll/Web/Html/Tests.hs b/tests/Hakyll/Web/Html/Tests.hs
--- a/tests/Hakyll/Web/Html/Tests.hs
+++ b/tests/Hakyll/Web/Html/Tests.hs
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@
             withUrls id "<code>&lt;stdio&gt;</code>"
         , "<style>body > p { line-height: 1.3 }</style>" @=?
             withUrls id "<style>body > p { line-height: 1.3 }</style>"
+
+        -- Test minimizing elements
+        , "<meta bar=\"foo\" />" @=?
+            withUrls id "<meta bar=\"foo\" />"
         ]
 
     , fromAssertions "toUrl"