diff --git a/examples/benchmark/main.zig b/examples/benchmark/main.zig
index b6c8cd2..ea2c648 100644
--- a/examples/benchmark/main.zig
+++ b/examples/benchmark/main.zig
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ pub fn main() !void {
     defer t.deinit();
 
     var router = try Router.init(allocator, &.{
-        Route.init("/").serve_embedded_file(http.Mime.HTML, @embedFile("index.html")).layer(),
+        Route.init("/").embed_file(.{ .mime = http.Mime.HTML }, @embedFile("index.html")).layer(),
         Route.init("/hi/%s").get({}, hi_handler).layer(),
     }, .{});
     defer router.deinit(allocator);
diff --git a/examples/multithread/main.zig b/examples/multithread/main.zig
index bae66e0..4b4dd2c 100644
--- a/examples/multithread/main.zig
+++ b/examples/multithread/main.zig
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ pub fn main() !void {
     defer t.deinit();
 
     var router = try Router.init(allocator, &.{
-        Route.init("/").serve_embedded_file(http.Mime.HTML, @embedFile("index.html")).layer(),
+        Route.init("/").embed_file(.{ .mime = http.Mime.HTML }, @embedFile("index.html")).layer(),
         Route.init("/hi/%s").get({}, hi_handler).layer(),
         Route.init("/redirect").get({}, redir_handler).layer(),
         Route.init("/post").post({}, post_handler).layer(),
diff --git a/examples/sse/main.zig b/examples/sse/main.zig
index 2c0c186..a0e0c65 100644
--- a/examples/sse/main.zig
+++ b/examples/sse/main.zig
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ pub fn main() !void {
     defer broadcast.deinit();
 
     var router = try Router.init(allocator, &.{
-        Route.init("/").serve_embedded_file(http.Mime.HTML, @embedFile("index.html")).layer(),
+        Route.init("/").embed_file(.{ .mime = http.Mime.HTML }, @embedFile("index.html")).layer(),
         Route.init("/kill").get({}, kill_handler).layer(),
         Route.init("/stream").get({}, sse_handler).layer(),
         Route.init("/message").post(&broadcast, msg_handler).layer(),
diff --git a/examples/tls/main.zig b/examples/tls/main.zig
index d99e3f2..4298a30 100644
--- a/examples/tls/main.zig
+++ b/examples/tls/main.zig
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ pub fn main() !void {
     defer t.deinit();
 
     var router = try Router.init(allocator, &.{
-        Route.init("/embed/pico.min.css").serve_embedded_file(
-            http.Mime.CSS,
+        Route.init("/embed/pico.min.css").embed_file(
+            .{ .mime = http.Mime.CSS },
             @embedFile("embed/pico.min.css"),
         ).layer(),
 
diff --git a/src/http/encoding.zig b/src/http/encoding.zig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f2b401a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/http/encoding.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+pub const Encoding = enum {
+    gzip,
+    compress,
+    deflate,
+    br,
+    zstd,
+};
diff --git a/src/http/lib.zig b/src/http/lib.zig
index 42f1223..a883317 100644
--- a/src/http/lib.zig
+++ b/src/http/lib.zig
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ pub const Method = @import("method.zig").Method;
 pub const Request = @import("request.zig").Request;
 pub const Response = @import("response.zig").Response;
 pub const Mime = @import("mime.zig").Mime;
+pub const Encoding = @import("encoding.zig").Encoding;
 pub const Date = @import("date.zig").Date;
 pub const Headers = @import("../core/case_string_map.zig").CaseStringMap([]const u8);
 
diff --git a/src/http/router/route.zig b/src/http/router/route.zig
index c91e11d..aa9936f 100644
--- a/src/http/router/route.zig
+++ b/src/http/router/route.zig
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ const Method = @import("../method.zig").Method;
 const Request = @import("../request.zig").Request;
 const Response = @import("../response.zig").Response;
 const Mime = @import("../mime.zig").Mime;
+const Encoding = @import("../encoding.zig").Encoding;
 
 const FsDir = @import("fs_dir.zig").FsDir;
 const Context = @import("../context.zig").Context;
@@ -166,10 +167,17 @@ pub const Route = struct {
         return inner_route(.PATCH, self, data, handler_fn);
     }
 
+    const ServeEmbeddedOptions = struct {
+        /// If you are serving a compressed file, please
+        /// set the correct encoding type.
+        encoding: ?Encoding = null,
+        mime: ?Mime = null,
+    };
+
     /// Define a GET handler to serve an embedded file.
-    pub fn serve_embedded_file(
+    pub fn embed_file(
         self: *const Self,
-        comptime mime: ?Mime,
+        comptime opts: ServeEmbeddedOptions,
         comptime bytes: []const u8,
     ) Self {
         return self.get({}, struct {
@@ -205,9 +213,16 @@ pub const Route = struct {
                     }
                 }
 
+                if (opts.encoding) |encoding| {
+                    ctx.response.headers.put_assume_capacity(
+                        "Content-Encoding",
+                        @tagName(encoding),
+                    );
+                }
+
                 return try ctx.respond(.{
                     .status = .OK,
-                    .mime = mime,
+                    .mime = opts.mime,
                     .body = bytes,
                 });
             }