diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 6b2025d..e6c4748 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
             pip install awscli
 
       # build with hugo
-      - run: HUGO_ENV=production hugo -v
+      - run: HUGO_ENV=production hugo -v --minify
       - run: 
           name: Test generated HTML files
           command: |