title: JSP trimDirectiveWhitespaces
body: <p>I am testing several ways to improve and reduce my response size, network traffic, and load time.
  One of the things I thought of using is the trimDirectiveWhitespaces element.
   I placed it in the page directive:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" trimDirectiveWhitespaces="true"%&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I added  some empty new lines and didn't see any change in my response or when i view source of the document, new lines were there.</p>
  
  <p>What is the correct usage of this and what am I doing wrong?</p>