diff --git a/swh/web/common/middlewares.py b/swh/web/common/middlewares.py
index 19cc8f9d3..b2dc3e82c 100644
--- a/swh/web/common/middlewares.py
+++ b/swh/web/common/middlewares.py
@@ -1,66 +1,65 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2018  The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU Affero General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
 
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 from htmlmin import minify
 
 
 class HtmlPrettifyMiddleware(object):
     """
     Django middleware for prettifying generated HTML in
     development mode.
     """
 
     def __init__(self, get_response):
         self.get_response = get_response
 
     def __call__(self, request):
         response = self.get_response(request)
         if 'text/html' in response.get('Content-Type', ''):
             response.content = \
                 BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'lxml').prettify()
 
         return response
 
 
 class HtmlMinifyMiddleware(object):
     """
     Django middleware for minifying generated HTML in
     production mode.
     """
 
     def __init__(self, get_response=None):
         self.get_response = get_response
 
     def __call__(self, request):
         response = self.get_response(request)
         if 'text/html' in response.get('Content-Type', ''):
             try:
-                minified_html = minify(response.content.decode('utf-8'),
-                                       convert_charrefs=False)
+                minified_html = minify(response.content.decode('utf-8'))
                 response.content = minified_html.encode('utf-8')
             except Exception:
                 pass
         return response
 
 
 class ThrottlingHeadersMiddleware(object):
     """
     Django middleware for inserting rate limiting related
     headers in HTTP response.
     """
 
     def __init__(self, get_response=None):
         self.get_response = get_response
 
     def __call__(self, request):
         resp = self.get_response(request)
         if 'RateLimit-Limit' in request.META:
             resp['X-RateLimit-Limit'] = request.META['RateLimit-Limit']
         if 'RateLimit-Remaining' in request.META:
             resp['X-RateLimit-Remaining'] = request.META['RateLimit-Remaining']
         if 'RateLimit-Reset' in request.META:
             resp['X-RateLimit-Reset'] = request.META['RateLimit-Reset']
         return resp