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Warning

Brotli compression will be enabled by default for all zones on 2024-08-15. The Brotli setting will be gradually removed until then.

Enterprise customers can override Cloudflare’s default compression behavior using Compression Rules.

By default, Brotli compression is enabled for domains on Free and Pro plans and disabled for domains on Business and Enterprise plans.

To enable Brotli compression:

1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard, and select your account and website.
2. Go to Speed > Optimization > Content Optimization.
3. For Brotli, toggle the switch to On.

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Notes about end-to-end compression

Even when using the same compression algorithm end to end (between your origin server and Cloudflare, and between the Cloudflare global network and your website visitor), Cloudflare will need to decompress the response and compress it again if you enable any of the following options for the request:

• Email Address Obfuscation
• Rocket Loader
• Mirage
• Automatic HTTPS Rewrites
• Polish

To disable these features for specific URI paths, create a Configuration Rule.

Additionally, Cloudflare Fonts also requires Cloudflare to decompress the response and compress it again, and cannot be disabled through Rules at this time.

Note

If you want to use Cloudflare Web Analytics, we recommend that you use the manual mode setup (adding a JavaScript snippet to your HTML pages) to avoid decompression.