traefik/docs/content/middlewares/compress.md

Compress

Compressing the Response before Sending it to the Client {: .subtitle }

The Compress middleware enables the gzip compression.

Configuration Examples

# Enable gzip compression
labels:
  - "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress=true"

# Enable gzip compression
apiVersion: traefik.containo.us/v1alpha1
kind: Middleware
metadata:
  name: test-compress
spec:
  compress: {}

"labels": {
  "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress": "true"
}

# Enable gzip compression
labels:
  - "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress=true"

# Enable gzip compression
[http.middlewares]
  [http.middlewares.test-compress.compress]

# Enable gzip compression
http:
  middlewares:
    test-compress:
      compress: {}

!!! info

Responses are compressed when:

* The response body is larger than `1400` bytes.
* The `Accept-Encoding` request header contains `gzip`.
* The response is not already compressed, i.e. the `Content-Encoding` response header is not already set.