User documentation
  1. What is redirection.io?
  2. Starter's guide
  3. What are organizations and projects?
  4. Invite new collaborators
  5. User account and preferences
  6. Using traffic logs
  7. Create a rule
  8. Triggers and markers reference
  9. Actions reference
  10. How to bulk-import or export redirection rules?
  11. Managing instances
  12. Project notifications
  13. Project segmentation
  14. How much does it cost?
  15. Can I use redirection.io for free?
  16. About us
Developer documentation
  1. TL;DR; Fast track
  2. Available integrations
  3. nginx module
  4. Apache module
  5. platform.sh integration
  6. Cloudflare Workers integration
  7. Fastly Compute@Edge integration
  8. Vercel Middleware Integration
  9. Using redirection.io with Docker
  10. How fast is it?
  11. Public API
Agent documentation
  1. Installing the agent
  2. Upgrading the agent
  3. Agent command line options
  4. The agent as a reverse proxy
  5. Agent configuration reference
  6. Minimal configuration
  7. Listening for requests
  8. Forwarding requests to the backend
  9. Virtualhosts
  10. Trusted proxies
  11. GeoIP database
  12. Response compression
  13. Performance tweaks
  14. Access logs
  15. Persisting data in a s3 bucket
  16. Monitoring the agent
  17. Using the agent behind a HTTPS proxy
  18. Agent configuration examples
Managed instances
  1. What are managed instances?
  2. Add a domain to your project
  3. Managed instances limits and quota
  4. Frequently asked questions
Crawler
  1. What is the redirection.io crawler?
  2. Start a crawl
  3. Schedule a crawl
  4. Analyzing the results of a crawl
  5. The crawls list
  6. Crawl credits and pricing
  7. Crawl Errors
  8. Crawler metrics reference
  9. Crawler columns reference
Knowledge base
  1. Create your first redirections
  2. redirection.io rules cookbook
  3. Setting up a redirection server on Azure Cloud
  4. Structured data and Rich Snippets
  5. What is a URL redirection?
  6. Why use URL redirections and how to setup
Legacy versions
  1. Agent 1.x configuration reference
  2. Agent 2.x configuration reference
  3. Legacy integrations
  4. Legacy Cloudflare Workers integration
Changelogs
  1. redirectionio-agent
  2. libnginx-mod-redirectionio
  3. libapache2-mod-redirectionio

Response compression

By default, the redirection.io agent does not compress the responses received from the backend servers, and it forwards them to the clients as they are. However, you can configure the agent to compress the responses using gzip or brotli compression algorithms, which can reduce the size of the responses and improve the network performance of your website.

To enable response compression, you can use the http.compress configuration key in the agent configuration file. For example:

View in configuration explorer 
instance:
    name: 'My Instance'
reverse_proxy:
    listen:
        - 'tcp://0.0.0.0:80'
    forward:
        address: 'backend:8080'
    agent:
        project_key: my-project-key
    http:
        compress: true
This page has been updated on Mar 30, 2026
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