⚡ Compression in Japan

HTTP compression allows web servers to reduce the size of transmitted data using algorithms like Gzip and Brotli, decreasing bandwidth usage and improving page load speed by compressing text-based resources such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript before sending them to the client.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our research, compression technologies are used on 41.4% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 170K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top compression technologies in Japan in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Gzip with an impressive share of 51%, followed by Brotli with 49% and 🛠️ Deflate with 0.004%.

Gzip 51%
Brotli 49%
🛠️ Deflate 0.004%

✨ Best Compression Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 3 compression technologies used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Gzip Boston, Massachusetts, United States A file compression technology based on the Deflate algorithm that adds headers and a checksum for data integrity while reducing the size of HTTP responses sent from servers to browsers.	51%
2	Brotli Mountain View, California, United States A lossless compression algorithm developed by Google that uses LZ77, Huffman coding, and context modeling to achieve higher data density than Gzip for web content.	49%
3	🛠️ Deflate Fremont, California, United States A lossless data compression algorithm that combines the LZ77 sliding window technique with Huffman coding to reduce data size efficiently.	0.004%

👉 See Also

🌎 Compression in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 170,082 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 3 compression technologies across the web.
Of these, 3 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.