Enable compression

Last published : Sep 22, 2026
The NetScaler appliance provides a compression option to transparently compress HTML and text files by using a set of built-in compression policies. Compression reduces bandwidth requirements and can significantly improve server responsiveness in bandwidth-constrained setups. The compression policies are associated with services bound to the virtual server. The policies determine whether a response can be compressed and send compressible content to the appliance, which compresses it and sends it to the client.
Note: For compression to function correctly, you must enable it globally. For more information about configuring compression globally, see Compression.
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To enable compression on a service by using the CLI

At the command prompt, type:
set service <name> -CMP <YES | NO>
Example:
set service Service-HTTP-1 -CMP YES

To enable compression on a service by using the GUI

  1. Navigate to Traffic Management > Load Balancing > Services, and open a service.
  2. In Advanced Settings, select Traffic Settings, and select Compression.