Laravel Response Compression

Boost your Laravel application's performance by optimizing HTTP responses with middleware for compression.

Installation

Install the package via Composer:

composer require uak35/laravel-response-compression

Publish the configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Uak35\ResponseCompression\ResponseCompressionServiceProvider"

Middleware Overview

This package provides the following middleware:

Compression Middleware

Applies Gzip, Brotli, or Zstd compression to HTTP responses based on client support. This reduces the size of the response payload and enhances load times.

Ideal For: Large JSON responses, static files, or data-intensive endpoints.

[!NOTE] To use Brotli effectively, ensure that the Brotli PHP extension is properly installed. https://pecl.php.net/package/brotli

[!WARNING] When using Brotli, a client-side decoding error may occur with non-secure connections, as modern browsers generally support Brotli compression only over HTTPS.

[!NOTE] To use Zstandard (ZSTD) effectively, ensure that the ZSTD PHP extension is properly installed. https://pecl.php.net/package/zstd

Setup

Register Middleware

Global Middleware

Apply the middleware globally to all requests:

// bootstrap/app.php

->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware) {
    ...
    $middleware->web(append: [
        ...
        \Uak35\ResponseCompression\Middleware\CompressResponse::class,
    ]);
})

Route Middleware

Alternatively, register it as route middleware for selective application:

use Uak35\ResponseCompression\Middleware\CompressResponse;

Route::get('/profile', function () {
    // ...
})->middleware(CompressResponse::class);

Config

/**
 * Enable or disable the response compression.
 */
'enabled' => env('RESPONSE_COMPRESSION_ENABLED', true),

/**
 * The compression algorithm to use. Can be either 'gzip' or 'br'.
 */
'algorithm' => env('RESPONSE_COMPRESSION_ALGORITHM', 'gzip'),

/**
 * The minimum length of the response content to be compressed.
 */
'min_length' => env('RESPONSE_COMPRESSION_MIN_LENGTH', 1024),

'gzip' => [
    /**
     * The level of compression. Can be given as 0 for no compression up to 9
     * for maximum compression. If not given, the default compression level will
     * be the default compression level of the zlib library.
     *
     * @see https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gzencode.php
     */
    'level' => env('RESPONSE_COMPRESSION_GZIP_LEVEL', 5),
],

'br' => [
    /**
     * The level of compression. Can be given as 0 for no compression up to 11
     * for maximum compression. If not given, the default compression level will
     * be the default compression level of the brotli library.
     *
     * @see https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.brotli-compress.php
     */
    'level' => env('RESPONSE_COMPRESSION_BROTLI_LEVEL', 5),

    'non_supporting_user_agent_prefixes' => [
        'ELB-HealthChecker/',
        'PostmanRuntime/',
        'axios/',
        'Dart/',
    ],
],

'zstd' => [
    /**
     * The level of compression. Can be given as 0 for no compression up to 22
     * for maximum compression. If not given, the default compression level will
     * be the default compression level of the zstd library.
     *
     * @see https://github.com/kjdev/php-ext-zstd
     */
    'level' => env('RESPONSE_COMPRESSION_ZSTD_LEVEL', 3),

    'non_supporting_user_agent_prefixes' => [
        'ELB-HealthChecker/',
        'PostmanRuntime/',
        'axios/',
        'Dart/',
        'IntelliJ HTTP Client/',
    ],
],

'try_multiple_encodings' => env('RESPONSE_COMPRESSION_TRY_MULTIPLE_ENCODINGS', false),

'multiple_encodings_order' => env('RESPONSE_COMPRESSION_MULTIPLE_ENCODINGS_ORDER', 'br,zstd,gzip')

Testing

composer test

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Submit a pull request or open an issue to discuss new features or improvements.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.