Code Bloat vs. Semantic Clarity: The AI Cleaning Process

Storage Savings ~72%

Lines of Code

12 → 4

Readability Semantic

Visual Comparison

Raw Output (Word/Docs) 486 chars

Semantic HTML (Clean) 136 chars

On the left, raw HTML output from a standard word processor containing 'mso-' tags and inline styles. On the right, the same content after AI sanitization: clean, semantic, and optimized for crawlers.

Data sources: Drexel University, University of Minnesota IT, Coding Horror