diff --git a/lib/jsduck/app.rb b/lib/jsduck/app.rb
index 2cd23df7189c9aa2256d120dcd96fd74251a294c..b114055fb1a4eeb6ad0ac57fb3c2000d24889a94 100644
--- a/lib/jsduck/app.rb
+++ b/lib/jsduck/app.rb
@@ -180,10 +180,11 @@ module JsDuck
         filename = @opts.output_dir+"/output/" + cls[:name] + (@opts.export ? ".json" : ".js")
         Logger.instance.log("Writing to #{filename} ...")
         data = exporter.export(cls)
-        data[:html] = renderer.render(data)
         if @opts.export
           JsonDuck.write_json(filename, data)
         else
+          data[:html] = renderer.render(data)
+          data = exporter.compact(data)
           JsonDuck.write_jsonp(filename, cls[:name].gsub(/\./, "_"), data)
         end
       end
diff --git a/lib/jsduck/exporter.rb b/lib/jsduck/exporter.rb
index a7c88cef1f188b54a9478852d992f125c9ed4fca..e3b346767b164992eb36a1416e5df7c500ac059e 100644
--- a/lib/jsduck/exporter.rb
+++ b/lib/jsduck/exporter.rb
@@ -24,6 +24,29 @@ module JsDuck
       h
     end
 
+    # removes extra data from export
+    def compact(cls)
+      cls.delete(:doc)
+      cls[:members] = compact_members_group(cls[:members])
+      cls[:statics] = compact_members_group(cls[:statics])
+      cls
+    end
+
+    def compact_members_group(group)
+      c_group = {}
+      group.each_pair do |type, members|
+        c_group[type] = members.map {|m| compact_member(m) }
+      end
+      c_group
+    end
+
+    def compact_member(m)
+      m_copy = {}
+      [:name, :tagname, :owner, :protected, :static, :deprecated, :required].each do |key|
+        m_copy[key] = m[key]
+      end
+      m_copy
+    end
   end
 
 end