:zap: perf: Compression for the page responses of the search engine (#472)

Cargo.toml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ serde = {version="1.0.190", default-features=false, features=["derive"]}
 serde_json = {version="1.0.108", default-features=false}
 maud = {version="0.25.0", default-features=false, features=["actix-web"]}
 scraper = {version="0.18.1", default-features = false}
-actix-web = {version="4.4.0", features = ["cookies", "macros"], default-features=false}
+actix-web = {version="4.4.0", features = ["cookies", "macros", "compress-brotli"], default-features=false}
 actix-files = {version="0.6.2", default-features=false}
 actix-cors = {version="0.6.4", default-features=false}
 fake-useragent = {version="0.1.3", default-features=false}

src/lib.rs

@@ -21,7 +21,12 @@ use crate::server::router;
 use actix_cors::Cors;
 use actix_files as fs;
 use actix_governor::{Governor, GovernorConfigBuilder};
-use actix_web::{dev::Server, http::header, middleware::Logger, web, App, HttpServer};
+use actix_web::{
+    dev::Server,
+    http::header,
+    middleware::{Compress, Logger},
+    web, App, HttpServer,
+};
 use cache::cacher::{Cacher, SharedCache};
 use config::parser::Config;
 use handler::{file_path, FileType};
@@ -73,6 +78,8 @@ pub fn run(
             ]);
 
         App::new()
+            // Compress the responses provided by the server for the client requests.
+            .wrap(Compress::default())
             .wrap(Logger::default()) // added logging middleware for logging.
             .app_data(web::Data::new(config.clone()))
             .app_data(cache.clone())