diff --git a/commafeed-server/src/main/resources/application.properties b/commafeed-server/src/main/resources/application.properties
index a90aeff7..c650c424 100644
--- a/commafeed-server/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/commafeed-server/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # http
 quarkus.http.port=8082
 quarkus.http.test-port=8085
+quarkus.http.enable-compression=true
 
 # static files
 ## make sure the webapp is always up to date
diff --git a/commafeed-server/src/test/java/com/commafeed/integration/CompressionIT.java b/commafeed-server/src/test/java/com/commafeed/integration/CompressionIT.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..24a7096b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/commafeed-server/src/test/java/com/commafeed/integration/CompressionIT.java
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package com.commafeed.integration;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.ValueSource;
+
+import com.google.common.net.HttpHeaders;
+
+import io.quarkus.test.junit.QuarkusTest;
+import io.restassured.RestAssured;
+
+@QuarkusTest
+class CompressionIT {
+
+	@ParameterizedTest
+	@ValueSource(strings = { "/rest/server/get", "/openapi.json" })
+	void servedWithCompression(String path) {
+		RestAssured.given().when().get(path).then().statusCode(200).header(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_ENCODING, "gzip");
+	}
+}