The FortiADC appliance supports compression offloading. Compression offloading means the ADC handles compression processing instead of the backend servers, allowing them to dedicate resources to their own application processes.

When compression is enabled for a virtual server profile, the FortiADC system intelligently compresses HTTP and HTTPS traffic. Reducing server reply content size accelerates performance and improves response times. FortiADC supports both industry standard GZIP and DEFLATE algorithms.

For configuration details, see “Configuring compression rules”.