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EP 28: Response Compression in ASP.NET Core

Muhammad Waseem
Weekly .NET Newsletter
3 min readSep 29, 2023

In today’s newsletter we are going to discuss:

  • What is response compression
  • Benefits
  • Implementation
  • How to implement it
  • Compression providers
  • Compression levels
  • How to make custom provider
  • When should we compress our response

What is response compression

Response compression is a technique that can be used to reduce the size of HTTP responses.

Response compression reduces the size of HTTP response which ultimately increases the responsiveness of app.

Benefits of response compression

Pros of response compression are list below:

Improved performance

Compressing the response can reduce the amount of data that needs to be transmitted over the network, which can lead to faster page load times and a better user experience.

Reduced bandwidth usage

By compressing the response, you can reduce the amount of data that is transmitted over the network, which can lead to reduced bandwidth usage and lower costs for hosting and bandwidth

Better SEO

Search engines take page load times into account when ranking websites, so a faster loading website may rank…

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