diff --git a/Gopkg.lock b/Gopkg.lock
index c5d1b8b8e..680d75b6c 100644
--- a/Gopkg.lock
+++ b/Gopkg.lock
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@
   packages = ["."]
   revision = "d175f85701dfbf44cb0510114c9943e665e60907"
 
+[[projects]]
+  branch = "master"
+  name = "github.com/gin-contrib/gzip"
+  packages = ["."]
+  revision = "ff223ab9f8e3e69d4eb333c90966e057c5a97873"
+
 [[projects]]
   branch = "master"
   name = "github.com/gin-contrib/sse"
@@ -172,6 +178,6 @@
 [solve-meta]
   analyzer-name = "dep"
   analyzer-version = 1
-  inputs-digest = "7f8053eae7793a1bf95a91da813f86e38bf12678ad493d01c3f25864249dd305"
+  inputs-digest = "32bf99922b6d83811ed209762176a18be21b3a747affed35d9b6a266d53434b6"
   solver-name = "gps-cdcl"
   solver-version = 1
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 52da73413..216c677da 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/cloudflare/unsee/internal/transform"
 
 	"github.com/DeanThompson/ginpprof"
+	"github.com/gin-contrib/gzip"
 	"github.com/gin-contrib/static"
 	"github.com/gin-gonic/contrib/sentry"
 	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ func getViewURL(sub string) string {
 }
 
 func setupRouter(router *gin.Engine) {
+	router.Use(gzip.Gzip(gzip.DefaultCompression))
 	router.Use(static.Serve(getViewURL("/static"), newBinaryFileSystem("static")))
 
 	router.GET(getViewURL("/favicon.ico"), favicon)
diff --git a/views_test.go b/views_test.go
index 967bf104c..fb1faed04 100644
--- a/views_test.go
+++ b/views_test.go
@@ -454,3 +454,50 @@ func TestStaticFilesPrefix(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func TestGzipMiddleware(t *testing.T) {
+	mockConfig()
+	r := ginTestEngine()
+	paths := []string{"/", "/help", "/alerts.json", "/autocomplete.json", "/metrics"}
+	for _, path := range paths {
+		req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", path, nil)
+		req.Header.Set("Accept-Encoding", "gzip")
+		resp := httptest.NewRecorder()
+		r.ServeHTTP(resp, req)
+		h := resp.Header()
+
+		ce := h.Get("Content-Encoding")
+		if ce != "gzip" {
+			t.Errorf("Inavlid 'Content-Encoding' in response for '%s', expected 'gzip', got '%s'", path, ce)
+		}
+
+		bs := h.Get("Content-Length")
+		if fmt.Sprint(resp.Body.Len()) != bs {
+			t.Errorf("Invalid 'Content-Length' in response for '%s', body size was %d but header value was '%s'", path, resp.Body.Len(), bs)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestGzipMiddlewareWithoutAcceptEncoding(t *testing.T) {
+	mockConfig()
+	r := ginTestEngine()
+	paths := []string{"/", "/help", "/alerts.json", "/autocomplete.json", "/metrics"}
+	for _, path := range paths {
+		req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", path, nil)
+		req.Header.Set("Accept-Encoding", "") // ensure that we don't pass anything up
+		resp := httptest.NewRecorder()
+		r.ServeHTTP(resp, req)
+		h := resp.Header()
+
+		ce := h.Get("Content-Encoding")
+		if ce == "gzip" {
+			t.Errorf("Inavlid 'Content-Encoding' in response for '%s', expected '', got '%s'", path, ce)
+		}
+
+		bs := h.Get("Content-Length")
+		// if we got Content-Length then compare it with body size
+		if bs != "" && fmt.Sprint(resp.Body.Len()) != bs {
+			t.Errorf("Invalid 'Content-Length' in response for '%s', body size was %d but header value was '%s'", path, resp.Body.Len(), bs)
+		}
+	}
+}