diff --git a/firmware/mkwebfs.py b/firmware/mkwebfs.py
index 0e3c0d3..39d5c14 100755
--- a/firmware/mkwebfs.py
+++ b/firmware/mkwebfs.py
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 import os
+import gzip
 
 incHttpHeader = True
+useCompression = True
 fileDir = "fsdata/fs/"
 
 def dumpBin2CHex(f, b):
@@ -58,9 +60,24 @@ for file in httpFiles:
         if(fext.endswith("ram")):
             ctype = b'Content-type: audio/x-pn-realaudio\r\n'
         response += ctype
-        response += b"\r\n"
+        
         binFile = open(file, 'rb')
-        response += binFile.read()
+        binData = binFile.read()
+        compEff = False
+        if useCompression:
+            compData = gzip.compress(binData, 9)
+            if len(compData) < len(binData):
+                compEff = True
+                print("- Compressed from {} to {}".format(len(binData), len(compData)))
+                binData = compData
+            else:
+                print("- Compression skipped Orig: {} Comp: {}".format(len(binData), len(compData)))
+        binFile.close()
+
+        if compEff:
+            response += b'Content-Encoding: gzip\r\n'
+        response += b"\r\n"
+        response += binData
         binFile.close()
         escFile = file.replace("/", "_").replace(".", "_")
         escFileData = "data_" + escFile