diff --git a/lib/frenzy/network.ex b/lib/frenzy/network.ex
index 0ea6780..afcd214 100644
--- a/lib/frenzy/network.ex
+++ b/lib/frenzy/network.ex
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ defmodule Frenzy.Network do
 
     plug Tesla.Middleware.Logger, log_level: &log_level/1
     plug Tesla.Middleware.FollowRedirects
+    plug Tesla.Middleware.Compression
 
     # can't use JSON middleware currently, because feed_parser expects to parse the raw body data itself
     # plug Tesla.Middleware.JSON