diff --git a/backend/src/main.py b/backend/src/main.py
index b583481..d468104 100644
--- a/backend/src/main.py
+++ b/backend/src/main.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import argparse
 import uvicorn
 from fastapi import FastAPI
 from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
+from fastapi.middleware.gzip import GZipMiddleware
 
 from src import database
 from src.routes.projects import router as project_router
@@ -43,6 +44,10 @@ app.add_middleware(
 )
 
 
+# Add HTTP compression for responses with more than 500 bytes
+app.add_middleware(GZipMiddleware)
+
+
 @app.on_event("startup")
 def on_startup():
     """Code executed on HTTP server startup. Until now only creating databases and tables."""