diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index f1d99d5e..fa686b91 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -64,6 +64,16 @@ The default value for the ``HTML_MINIFY`` setting is ``not DEBUG``. You only
 need to set it to ``True`` if you want to minify your HTML code when ``DEBUG``
 is enabled.
 
+You can also optionally specify the ``HTML_MINIFY_AJAX`` setting:
+
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    HTML_MINIFY_AJAX = False
+
+The default value for the ``HTML_MINIFY_AJAX`` setting is ``True``. You only
+need to set it to ``False`` if don't want to minify AJAX requests.
+
 Excluding some URLs
 -------------------
 
diff --git a/htmlmin/middleware.py b/htmlmin/middleware.py
index 00eeaee5..01b37f51 100644
--- a/htmlmin/middleware.py
+++ b/htmlmin/middleware.py
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ def can_minify_response(self, request, response):
                 if regex.match(request.path.lstrip('/')):
                     req_ok = False
                     break
+			
+        if not getattr(settings, 'HTML_MINIFY_AJAX', True) and request.is_ajax():
+            return False
 
         resp_ok = 'text/html' in response.get('Content-Type', '')
         if hasattr(response, 'minify_response'):