diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/enhancement-web-server-compression.md b/changelog/unreleased/enhancement-web-server-compression.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c4e2ecb5ac7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/enhancement-web-server-compression.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Enhancement: Web server compression
+
+We've added a compression middleware to the web server to reduce the request size when delivering static files. This speeds up loading times in web clients.
+
+https://github.com/owncloud/ocis/pull/9287
+https://github.com/owncloud/web/issues/7964
diff --git a/services/web/pkg/server/http/server.go b/services/web/pkg/server/http/server.go
index 012c3ccf41d..bc8bed9af18 100644
--- a/services/web/pkg/server/http/server.go
+++ b/services/web/pkg/server/http/server.go
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ func Server(opts ...Option) (http.Service, error) {
 		svc.Middleware(
 			chimiddleware.RealIP,
 			chimiddleware.RequestID,
+			chimiddleware.Compress(5),
 			middleware.NoCache,
 			webmid.SilentRefresh,
 			middleware.Version(