diff --git a/lib/builder/generator.js b/lib/builder/generator.js
index c04ef183b5..407ca32794 100644
--- a/lib/builder/generator.js
+++ b/lib/builder/generator.js
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import htmlMinifier from 'html-minifier'
 import Chalk from 'chalk'
 import fsExtra from 'fs-extra'
 import consola from 'consola'
-import { isUrl, promisifyRoute, waitFor, flatRoutes } from '../common/utils'
+import { flatRoutes, isUrl, promisifyRoute, waitFor } from '../common/utils'
 
 export default class Generator {
   constructor(nuxt, builder) {
@@ -223,9 +223,19 @@ export default class Generator {
       return false
     }
 
-    if (this.options.generate.minify) {
+    let minificationOptions = this.options.build.html.minify
+
+    // Legacy: Override minification options with generate.minify if present
+    // TODO: Remove in Nuxt version 3
+    if (typeof this.options.generate.minify !== 'undefined') {
+      minificationOptions = this.options.generate.minify
+      consola.warn('generate.minify has been deprecated and will be removed in the next major version.' +
+        ' Use build.html.minify instead!')
+    }
+
+    if (minificationOptions) {
       try {
-        html = htmlMinifier.minify(html, this.options.generate.minify)
+        html = htmlMinifier.minify(html, minificationOptions)
       } catch (err) /* istanbul ignore next */ {
         const minifyErr = new Error(
           `HTML minification failed. Make sure the route generates valid HTML. Failed HTML:\n ${html}`
diff --git a/lib/builder/webpack/client.js b/lib/builder/webpack/client.js
index 775862ff36..f337374bfa 100644
--- a/lib/builder/webpack/client.js
+++ b/lib/builder/webpack/client.js
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ export default class WebpackClientConfig extends WebpackBaseConfig {
         new HTMLPlugin({
           filename: '../server/index.ssr.html',
           template: this.options.appTemplatePath,
-          minify: true,
+          minify: this.options.build.html.minify,
           inject: false // Resources will be injected using bundleRenderer
         })
       )
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ export default class WebpackClientConfig extends WebpackBaseConfig {
       new HTMLPlugin({
         filename: '../server/index.spa.html',
         template: this.options.appTemplatePath,
-        minify: true,
+        minify: this.options.build.html.minify,
         inject: true,
         chunksSortMode: 'dependency'
       }),
diff --git a/lib/common/nuxt.config.js b/lib/common/nuxt.config.js
index cefbb2051d..8eafd7f9ff 100644
--- a/lib/common/nuxt.config.js
+++ b/lib/common/nuxt.config.js
@@ -116,6 +116,20 @@ export default {
         stage: 2
       }
     },
+    html: {
+      minify: {
+        collapseBooleanAttributes: true,
+        decodeEntities: true,
+        minifyCSS: true,
+        minifyJS: true,
+        processConditionalComments: true,
+        removeEmptyAttributes: true,
+        removeRedundantAttributes: true,
+        trimCustomFragments: true,
+        useShortDoctype: true
+      }
+    },
+
     templates: [],
     watch: [],
     devMiddleware: {},
@@ -140,27 +154,7 @@ export default {
     concurrency: 500,
     interval: 0,
     subFolders: true,
-    fallback: '200.html',
-    minify: {
-      collapseBooleanAttributes: true,
-      collapseWhitespace: false,
-      decodeEntities: true,
-      minifyCSS: true,
-      minifyJS: true,
-      processConditionalComments: true,
-      removeAttributeQuotes: false,
-      removeComments: false,
-      removeEmptyAttributes: true,
-      removeOptionalTags: false,
-      removeRedundantAttributes: true,
-      removeScriptTypeAttributes: false,
-      removeStyleLinkTypeAttributes: false,
-      removeTagWhitespace: false,
-      sortAttributes: true,
-      sortClassName: false,
-      trimCustomFragments: true,
-      useShortDoctype: true
-    }
+    fallback: '200.html'
   },
   env: {},
   head: {