diff --git a/responder/api.py b/responder/api.py
index 1b0e687..36e9e98 100644
--- a/responder/api.py
+++ b/responder/api.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from graphql_server import encode_execution_results, json_encode, default_format
 from starlette.routing import Router
 from starlette.staticfiles import StaticFiles
 from starlette.testclient import TestClient
+from starlette.middleware.gzip import GZipMiddleware
 from apispec import APISpec
 from apispec.ext.marshmallow import MarshmallowPlugin
 from apispec import yaml_utils
@@ -76,6 +77,8 @@ class API:
             self.add_route(openapi_route, self.schema_response)
 
         self.default_endpoint = None
+        self.app = self.dispatch
+        self.add_middleware(GZipMiddleware)
 
     @property
     def _apispec(self):
@@ -102,6 +105,9 @@ class API:
     def openapi(self):
         return self._apispec.to_yaml()
 
+    def add_middleware(self, middleware_cls, **middleware_config):
+        self.app = middleware_cls(self.app, **middleware_config)
+
     def __call__(self, scope):
         path = scope["path"]
         root_path = scope.get("root_path", "")
@@ -117,6 +123,9 @@ class API:
                     app = WsgiToAsgi(app)
                     return app(scope)
 
+        return self.app(scope)
+
+    def dispatch(self, scope):
         # Call the main dispatcher.
         async def asgi(receive, send):
             nonlocal scope, self
diff --git a/responder/models.py b/responder/models.py
index cecc31b..7fac2c2 100644
--- a/responder/models.py
+++ b/responder/models.py
@@ -250,35 +250,8 @@ class Response:
             {"Content-Type": "application/json"},
         )
 
-    @property
-    async def gzipped_body(self):
-
-        body, headers = await self.body
-
-        if isinstance(body, str):
-            body = body.encode(self.encoding)
-
-        if "gzip" in self.req.headers["Accept-Encoding"].lower():
-            gzip_buffer = io.BytesIO()
-            gzip_file = gzip.GzipFile(mode="wb", fileobj=gzip_buffer)
-            gzip_file.write(body)
-            gzip_file.close()
-
-            new_headers = {
-                "Content-Encoding": "gzip",
-                "Vary": "Accept-Encoding",
-                "Content-Length": str(len(body)),
-            }
-            headers.update(new_headers)
-
-            return (gzip_buffer.getvalue(), headers)
-        else:
-            return (body, headers)
-
     async def __call__(self, receive, send):
         body, headers = await self.body
-        if len(await self.body) > 500:
-            body, headers = await self.gzipped_body
         if self.headers:
             headers.update(self.headers)