diff --git a/CMake/FindDeflate.cmake b/CMake/FindDeflate.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..99aec8c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CMake/FindDeflate.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Find package structure taken from libcurl
+
+include(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
+
+find_path(DEFLATE_INCLUDE_DIRS libdeflate.h)
+find_library(DEFLATE_LIBRARY deflate)
+
+find_package_handle_standard_args(DEFLATE
+    FOUND_VAR
+      DEFLATE_FOUND
+    REQUIRED_VARS
+      DEFLATE_LIBRARY
+      DEFLATE_INCLUDE_DIRS
+    FAIL_MESSAGE
+      "Could NOT find deflate"
+)
+
+set(DEFLATE_INCLUDE_DIRS ${DEFLATE_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+set(DEFLATE_LIBRARIES ${DEFLATE_LIBRARY})
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 6564c77e..6b4dd893 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -202,6 +202,14 @@ if (USE_ZLIB)
   target_compile_definitions(ixwebsocket PUBLIC IXWEBSOCKET_USE_ZLIB)
 endif()
 
+# brew install libdeflate
+find_package(DEFLATE)
+if (DEFLATE_FOUND)
+  include_directories(${DEFLATE_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+  target_link_libraries(ixwebsocket ${DEFLATE_LIBRARIES})
+  target_compile_definitions(ixwebsocket PUBLIC IXWEBSOCKET_USE_DEFLATE)
+endif()
+
 if (WIN32)
   target_link_libraries(ixwebsocket wsock32 ws2_32 shlwapi)
   add_definitions(-D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS)
diff --git a/ixwebsocket/IXGzipCodec.cpp b/ixwebsocket/IXGzipCodec.cpp
index b85fbada..d5e07c47 100644
--- a/ixwebsocket/IXGzipCodec.cpp
+++ b/ixwebsocket/IXGzipCodec.cpp
@@ -13,11 +13,55 @@
 #include <zlib.h>
 #endif
 
+#ifdef IXWEBSOCKET_USE_DEFLATE
+#include <libdeflate.h>
+#endif
+
 namespace ix
 {
 #ifdef IXWEBSOCKET_USE_ZLIB
     std::string gzipCompress(const std::string& str)
     {
+#ifdef IXWEBSOCKET_USE_DEFLATE
+        int compressionLevel = 6;
+        struct libdeflate_compressor *compressor =
+            libdeflate_alloc_compressor(compressionLevel);
+
+        const void *uncompressed_data = str.data();
+        size_t uncompressed_size = str.size();
+        void *compressed_data;
+        size_t actual_compressed_size;
+        size_t max_compressed_size;
+
+        max_compressed_size = libdeflate_gzip_compress_bound(compressor,
+                                                             uncompressed_size);
+        compressed_data = malloc(max_compressed_size);
+        if (compressed_data == NULL)
+        {
+            return std::string();
+        }
+
+        actual_compressed_size = libdeflate_gzip_compress(
+            compressor,
+            uncompressed_data,
+            uncompressed_size,
+            compressed_data,
+            max_compressed_size);
+
+        if (actual_compressed_size == 0)
+        {
+            free(compressed_data);
+            return std::string();
+        }
+
+        libdeflate_free_compressor(compressor);
+
+        std::string out;
+        out.append(reinterpret_cast<char*>(compressed_data), actual_compressed_size);
+        free(compressed_data);
+
+        return out;
+#else
         z_stream zs; // z_stream is zlib's control structure
         memset(&zs, 0, sizeof(zs));
 
@@ -57,6 +101,7 @@ namespace ix
         deflateEnd(&zs);
 
         return outstring;
+#endif
     }
 
     bool gzipDecompress(const std::string& in, std::string& out)