diff --git a/frontends/etiquette_flask/backend/common.py b/frontends/etiquette_flask/backend/common.py
index b147220..2811b0a 100644
--- a/frontends/etiquette_flask/backend/common.py
+++ b/frontends/etiquette_flask/backend/common.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 import flask; from flask import request
+import gzip
+import io
 import mimetypes
 import traceback
 
@@ -43,6 +45,37 @@ file_cache_manager = caching.FileCacheManager(
     max_age=BROWSER_CACHE_DURATION,
 )
 
+gzip_minimum_size = 500
+gzip_level = 3
+@site.after_request
+def after_request(response):
+    '''
+    Thank you close.io.
+    https://github.com/closeio/Flask-gzip
+    '''
+    accept_encoding = request.headers.get('Accept-Encoding', '')
+
+    bail = False
+    bail = bail or response.status_code < 200
+    bail = bail or response.status_code >= 300
+    bail = bail or response.direct_passthrough
+    bail = bail or len(response.get_data()) < gzip_minimum_size
+    bail = bail or 'gzip' not in accept_encoding.lower()
+    bail = bail or 'Content-Encoding' in response.headers
+
+    if bail:
+        return response
+
+    gzip_buffer = io.BytesIO()
+    gzip_file = gzip.GzipFile(mode='wb', compresslevel=gzip_level, fileobj=gzip_buffer)
+    gzip_file.write(response.get_data())
+    gzip_file.close()
+    response.set_data(gzip_buffer.getvalue())
+    response.headers['Content-Encoding'] = 'gzip'
+    response.headers['Content-Length'] = len(response.get_data())
+
+    return response
+
 def P_wrapper(function):
     def P_wrapped(thingid, response_type):
         if response_type not in {'html', 'json'}: