ASP.NET Core has an inbuilt middleware for Response compression, which by default uses gzip compression. All modern browsers support response compression, and you should take advantage of it. Instead of sending response from the server as it is, it’s better to compress it and then send it, as this will reduce the response size and provides better speed. So in this post, let’s see how to enable gzip compression in ASP.NET Core.

Evaluation of gRPC & JSON performance in ASP.NET Core 3. Offical gRPC libraries, protobuf-net.Grpc, Newtonsoft.Json and System.Text.Json are compared.