diff --git a/integrations/lfs_getobject_test.go b/integrations/lfs_getobject_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8f01d712a3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integrations/lfs_getobject_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+// Copyright 2019 The Gitea Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a MIT-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package integrations
+
+import (
+	"archive/zip"
+	"bytes"
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"io"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"net/http"
+	"testing"
+
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/models"
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/gzip"
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/lfs"
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/setting"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+
+	gzipp "github.com/klauspost/compress/gzip"
+)
+
+func GenerateLFSOid(content io.Reader) (string, error) {
+	h := sha256.New()
+	if _, err := io.Copy(h, content); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	sum := h.Sum(nil)
+	return hex.EncodeToString(sum), nil
+}
+
+var lfsID = int64(20000)
+
+func storeObjectInRepo(t *testing.T, repositoryID int64, content *[]byte) string {
+	oid, err := GenerateLFSOid(bytes.NewReader(*content))
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	var lfsMetaObject *models.LFSMetaObject
+
+	if setting.UsePostgreSQL {
+		lfsMetaObject = &models.LFSMetaObject{ID: lfsID, Oid: oid, Size: int64(len(*content)), RepositoryID: repositoryID}
+	} else {
+		lfsMetaObject = &models.LFSMetaObject{Oid: oid, Size: int64(len(*content)), RepositoryID: repositoryID}
+	}
+
+	lfsID = lfsID + 1
+	lfsMetaObject, err = models.NewLFSMetaObject(lfsMetaObject)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	contentStore := &lfs.ContentStore{BasePath: setting.LFS.ContentPath}
+	if !contentStore.Exists(lfsMetaObject) {
+		err := contentStore.Put(lfsMetaObject, bytes.NewReader(*content))
+		assert.NoError(t, err)
+	}
+	return oid
+}
+
+func doLfs(t *testing.T, content *[]byte, expectGzip bool) {
+	prepareTestEnv(t)
+	repo, err := models.GetRepositoryByOwnerAndName("user2", "repo1")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	oid := storeObjectInRepo(t, repo.ID, content)
+	defer repo.RemoveLFSMetaObjectByOid(oid)
+
+	session := loginUser(t, "user2")
+
+	// Request OID
+	req := NewRequest(t, "GET", "/user2/repo1.git/info/lfs/objects/"+oid+"/test")
+	req.Header.Set("Accept-Encoding", "gzip")
+	resp := session.MakeRequest(t, req, http.StatusOK)
+
+	contentEncoding := resp.Header().Get("Content-Encoding")
+	if !expectGzip || !setting.EnableGzip {
+		assert.NotContains(t, contentEncoding, "gzip")
+
+		result := resp.Body.Bytes()
+		assert.Equal(t, *content, result)
+	} else {
+		assert.Contains(t, contentEncoding, "gzip")
+		gzippReader, err := gzipp.NewReader(resp.Body)
+		assert.NoError(t, err)
+		result, err := ioutil.ReadAll(gzippReader)
+		assert.NoError(t, err)
+		assert.Equal(t, *content, result)
+	}
+
+}
+
+func TestGetLFSSmall(t *testing.T) {
+	content := []byte("A very small file\n")
+	doLfs(t, &content, false)
+}
+
+func TestGetLFSLarge(t *testing.T) {
+	content := make([]byte, gzip.MinSize*10)
+	for i := range content {
+		content[i] = byte(i % 256)
+	}
+	doLfs(t, &content, true)
+}
+
+func TestGetLFSGzip(t *testing.T) {
+	b := make([]byte, gzip.MinSize*10)
+	for i := range b {
+		b[i] = byte(i % 256)
+	}
+	outputBuffer := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{})
+	gzippWriter := gzipp.NewWriter(outputBuffer)
+	gzippWriter.Write(b)
+	gzippWriter.Close()
+	content := outputBuffer.Bytes()
+	doLfs(t, &content, false)
+}
+
+func TestGetLFSZip(t *testing.T) {
+	b := make([]byte, gzip.MinSize*10)
+	for i := range b {
+		b[i] = byte(i % 256)
+	}
+	outputBuffer := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{})
+	zipWriter := zip.NewWriter(outputBuffer)
+	fileWriter, err := zipWriter.Create("default")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	fileWriter.Write(b)
+	zipWriter.Close()
+	content := outputBuffer.Bytes()
+	doLfs(t, &content, false)
+}
diff --git a/integrations/sqlite.ini b/integrations/sqlite.ini
index 857cfe46166..33c1015eca1 100644
--- a/integrations/sqlite.ini
+++ b/integrations/sqlite.ini
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ LFS_CONTENT_PATH = data/lfs-sqlite
 OFFLINE_MODE     = false
 LFS_JWT_SECRET   = Tv_MjmZuHqpIY6GFl12ebgkRAMt4RlWt0v4EHKSXO0w
 APP_DATA_PATH    = integrations/gitea-integration-sqlite/data
+ENABLE_GZIP      = true
 
 [mailer]
 ENABLED = false
diff --git a/models/lfs.go b/models/lfs.go
index 711e5b04944..39b0b2dd69a 100644
--- a/models/lfs.go
+++ b/models/lfs.go
@@ -44,20 +44,20 @@ const (
 func NewLFSMetaObject(m *LFSMetaObject) (*LFSMetaObject, error) {
 	var err error
 
-	has, err := x.Get(m)
+	sess := x.NewSession()
+	defer sess.Close()
+	if err = sess.Begin(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	has, err := sess.Get(m)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
 	if has {
 		m.Existing = true
-		return m, nil
-	}
-
-	sess := x.NewSession()
-	defer sess.Close()
-	if err = sess.Begin(); err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		return m, sess.Commit()
 	}
 
 	if _, err = sess.Insert(m); err != nil {
diff --git a/modules/gzip/gzip.go b/modules/gzip/gzip.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4a4a797c7aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/gzip/gzip.go
@@ -0,0 +1,327 @@
+// Copyright 2019 The Gitea Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a MIT-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package gzip
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"net"
+	"net/http"
+	"regexp"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+
+	"github.com/klauspost/compress/gzip"
+	"gopkg.in/macaron.v1"
+)
+
+const (
+	acceptEncodingHeader  = "Accept-Encoding"
+	contentEncodingHeader = "Content-Encoding"
+	contentLengthHeader   = "Content-Length"
+	contentTypeHeader     = "Content-Type"
+	rangeHeader           = "Range"
+	varyHeader            = "Vary"
+)
+
+const (
+	// MinSize is the minimum size of content we will compress
+	MinSize = 1400
+)
+
+// noopClosers are io.Writers with a shim to prevent early closure
+type noopCloser struct {
+	io.Writer
+}
+
+func (noopCloser) Close() error { return nil }
+
+// WriterPool is a gzip writer pool to reduce workload on creation of
+// gzip writers
+type WriterPool struct {
+	pool             sync.Pool
+	compressionLevel int
+}
+
+// NewWriterPool creates a new pool
+func NewWriterPool(compressionLevel int) *WriterPool {
+	return &WriterPool{pool: sync.Pool{
+		// New will return nil, we'll manage the creation of new
+		// writers in the middleware
+		New: func() interface{} { return nil },
+	},
+		compressionLevel: compressionLevel}
+}
+
+// Get a writer from the pool - or create one if not available
+func (wp *WriterPool) Get(rw macaron.ResponseWriter) *gzip.Writer {
+	ret := wp.pool.Get()
+	if ret == nil {
+		ret, _ = gzip.NewWriterLevel(rw, wp.compressionLevel)
+	} else {
+		ret.(*gzip.Writer).Reset(rw)
+	}
+	return ret.(*gzip.Writer)
+}
+
+// Put returns a writer to the pool
+func (wp *WriterPool) Put(w *gzip.Writer) {
+	wp.pool.Put(w)
+}
+
+var writerPool WriterPool
+var regex regexp.Regexp
+
+// Options represents the configuration for the gzip middleware
+type Options struct {
+	CompressionLevel int
+}
+
+func validateCompressionLevel(level int) bool {
+	return level == gzip.DefaultCompression ||
+		level == gzip.ConstantCompression ||
+		(level >= gzip.BestSpeed && level <= gzip.BestCompression)
+}
+
+func validate(options []Options) Options {
+	// Default to level 4 compression (Best results seem to be between 4 and 6)
+	opt := Options{CompressionLevel: 4}
+	if len(options) > 0 {
+		opt = options[0]
+	}
+	if !validateCompressionLevel(opt.CompressionLevel) {
+		opt.CompressionLevel = 4
+	}
+	return opt
+}
+
+// Middleware creates a macaron.Handler to proxy the response
+func Middleware(options ...Options) macaron.Handler {
+	opt := validate(options)
+	writerPool = *NewWriterPool(opt.CompressionLevel)
+	regex := regexp.MustCompile(`bytes=(\d+)\-.*`)
+
+	return func(ctx *macaron.Context) {
+		// If the client won't accept gzip or x-gzip don't compress
+		if !strings.Contains(ctx.Req.Header.Get(acceptEncodingHeader), "gzip") &&
+			!strings.Contains(ctx.Req.Header.Get(acceptEncodingHeader), "x-gzip") {
+			return
+		}
+
+		// If the client is asking for a specific range of bytes - don't compress
+		if rangeHdr := ctx.Req.Header.Get(rangeHeader); rangeHdr != "" {
+
+			match := regex.FindStringSubmatch(rangeHdr)
+			if match != nil && len(match) > 1 {
+				return
+			}
+		}
+
+		// OK we should proxy the response writer
+		// We are still not necessarily going to compress...
+		proxyWriter := &ProxyResponseWriter{
+			ResponseWriter: ctx.Resp,
+		}
+		defer proxyWriter.Close()
+
+		ctx.Resp = proxyWriter
+		ctx.MapTo(proxyWriter, (*http.ResponseWriter)(nil))
+
+		// Check if render middleware has been registered,
+		// if yes, we need to modify ResponseWriter for it as well.
+		if _, ok := ctx.Render.(*macaron.DummyRender); !ok {
+			ctx.Render.SetResponseWriter(proxyWriter)
+		}
+
+		ctx.Next()
+	}
+}
+
+// ProxyResponseWriter is a wrapped macaron ResponseWriter that may compress its contents
+type ProxyResponseWriter struct {
+	writer io.WriteCloser
+	macaron.ResponseWriter
+	stopped bool
+
+	code int
+	buf  []byte
+}
+
+// Write appends data to the proxied gzip writer.
+func (proxy *ProxyResponseWriter) Write(b []byte) (int, error) {
+	// if writer is initialized, use the writer
+	if proxy.writer != nil {
+		return proxy.writer.Write(b)
+	}
+
+	proxy.buf = append(proxy.buf, b...)
+
+	var (
+		contentLength, _ = strconv.Atoi(proxy.Header().Get(contentLengthHeader))
+		contentType      = proxy.Header().Get(contentTypeHeader)
+		contentEncoding  = proxy.Header().Get(contentEncodingHeader)
+	)
+
+	// OK if an encoding hasn't been chosen, and content length > 1400
+	// and content type isn't a compressed type
+	if contentEncoding == "" &&
+		(contentLength == 0 || contentLength >= MinSize) &&
+		(contentType == "" || !compressedContentType(contentType)) {
+		// If current buffer is less than the min size and a Content-Length isn't set, then wait
+		if len(proxy.buf) < MinSize && contentLength == 0 {
+			return len(b), nil
+		}
+
+		// If the Content-Length is larger than minSize or the current buffer is larger than minSize, then continue.
+		if contentLength >= MinSize || len(proxy.buf) >= MinSize {
+			// if we don't know the content type, infer it
+			if contentType == "" {
+				contentType = http.DetectContentType(proxy.buf)
+				proxy.Header().Set(contentTypeHeader, contentType)
+			}
+			// If the Content-Type is not compressed - Compress!
+			if !compressedContentType(contentType) {
+				if err := proxy.startGzip(); err != nil {
+					return 0, err
+				}
+				return len(b), nil
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	// If we got here, we should not GZIP this response.
+	if err := proxy.startPlain(); err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return len(b), nil
+}
+
+func (proxy *ProxyResponseWriter) startGzip() error {
+	// Set the content-encoding and vary headers.
+	proxy.Header().Set(contentEncodingHeader, "gzip")
+	proxy.Header().Set(varyHeader, acceptEncodingHeader)
+
+	// if the Content-Length is already set, then calls to Write on gzip
+	// will fail to set the Content-Length header since its already set
+	// See: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14975.
+	proxy.Header().Del(contentLengthHeader)
+
+	// Write the header to gzip response.
+	if proxy.code != 0 {
+		proxy.ResponseWriter.WriteHeader(proxy.code)
+		// Ensure that no other WriteHeader's happen
+		proxy.code = 0
+	}
+
+	// Initialize and flush the buffer into the gzip response if there are any bytes.
+	// If there aren't any, we shouldn't initialize it yet because on Close it will
+	// write the gzip header even if nothing was ever written.
+	if len(proxy.buf) > 0 {
+		// Initialize the GZIP response.
+		proxy.writer = writerPool.Get(proxy.ResponseWriter)
+
+		return proxy.writeBuf()
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (proxy *ProxyResponseWriter) startPlain() error {
+	if proxy.code != 0 {
+		proxy.ResponseWriter.WriteHeader(proxy.code)
+		proxy.code = 0
+	}
+	proxy.stopped = true
+	proxy.writer = noopCloser{proxy.ResponseWriter}
+	return proxy.writeBuf()
+}
+
+func (proxy *ProxyResponseWriter) writeBuf() error {
+	if proxy.buf == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	n, err := proxy.writer.Write(proxy.buf)
+
+	// This should never happen (per io.Writer docs), but if the write didn't
+	// accept the entire buffer but returned no specific error, we have no clue
+	// what's going on, so abort just to be safe.
+	if err == nil && n < len(proxy.buf) {
+		err = io.ErrShortWrite
+	}
+	proxy.buf = nil
+	return err
+}
+
+// WriteHeader will ensure that we have setup the writer before we write the header
+func (proxy *ProxyResponseWriter) WriteHeader(code int) {
+	if proxy.code == 0 {
+		proxy.code = code
+	}
+}
+
+// Close the writer
+func (proxy *ProxyResponseWriter) Close() error {
+	if proxy.stopped {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	if proxy.writer == nil {
+		err := proxy.startPlain()
+
+		if err != nil {
+			err = fmt.Errorf("GzipMiddleware: write to regular responseWriter at close gets error: %q", err.Error())
+		}
+	}
+
+	err := proxy.writer.Close()
+
+	if poolWriter, ok := proxy.writer.(*gzip.Writer); ok {
+		writerPool.Put(poolWriter)
+	}
+
+	proxy.writer = nil
+	proxy.stopped = true
+	return err
+}
+
+// Flush the writer
+func (proxy *ProxyResponseWriter) Flush() {
+	if proxy.writer == nil {
+		return
+	}
+
+	if gw, ok := proxy.writer.(*gzip.Writer); ok {
+		gw.Flush()
+	}
+
+	proxy.ResponseWriter.Flush()
+}
+
+// Hijack implements http.Hijacker. If the underlying ResponseWriter is a
+// Hijacker, its Hijack method is returned. Otherwise an error is returned.
+func (proxy *ProxyResponseWriter) Hijack() (net.Conn, *bufio.ReadWriter, error) {
+	hijacker, ok := proxy.ResponseWriter.(http.Hijacker)
+	if !ok {
+		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("the ResponseWriter doesn't support the Hijacker interface")
+	}
+	return hijacker.Hijack()
+}
+
+// verify Hijacker interface implementation
+var _ http.Hijacker = &ProxyResponseWriter{}
+
+func compressedContentType(contentType string) bool {
+	switch contentType {
+	case "application/zip":
+		return true
+	case "application/x-gzip":
+		return true
+	case "application/gzip":
+		return true
+	default:
+		return false
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/gzip/gzip_test.go b/modules/gzip/gzip_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d131e240af0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/gzip/gzip_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+// Copyright 2019 The Gitea Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a MIT-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package gzip
+
+import (
+	"archive/zip"
+	"bytes"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"testing"
+
+	gzipp "github.com/klauspost/compress/gzip"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	macaron "gopkg.in/macaron.v1"
+)
+
+func setup(sampleResponse []byte) (*macaron.Macaron, *[]byte) {
+	m := macaron.New()
+	m.Use(Middleware())
+	m.Get("/", func() *[]byte { return &sampleResponse })
+	return m, &sampleResponse
+}
+
+func reqNoAcceptGzip(t *testing.T, m *macaron.Macaron, sampleResponse *[]byte) {
+	// Request without accept gzip: Should not gzip
+	resp := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "/", nil)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	m.ServeHTTP(resp, req)
+
+	_, ok := resp.HeaderMap[contentEncodingHeader]
+	assert.False(t, ok)
+
+	contentEncoding := resp.Header().Get(contentEncodingHeader)
+	assert.NotContains(t, contentEncoding, "gzip")
+
+	result := resp.Body.Bytes()
+	assert.Equal(t, *sampleResponse, result)
+}
+
+func reqAcceptGzip(t *testing.T, m *macaron.Macaron, sampleResponse *[]byte, expectGzip bool) {
+	// Request without accept gzip: Should not gzip
+	resp := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "/", nil)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	req.Header.Set(acceptEncodingHeader, "gzip")
+	m.ServeHTTP(resp, req)
+
+	_, ok := resp.HeaderMap[contentEncodingHeader]
+	assert.Equal(t, ok, expectGzip)
+
+	contentEncoding := resp.Header().Get(contentEncodingHeader)
+	if expectGzip {
+		assert.Contains(t, contentEncoding, "gzip")
+		gzippReader, err := gzipp.NewReader(resp.Body)
+		assert.NoError(t, err)
+		result, err := ioutil.ReadAll(gzippReader)
+		assert.NoError(t, err)
+		assert.Equal(t, *sampleResponse, result)
+	} else {
+		assert.NotContains(t, contentEncoding, "gzip")
+		result := resp.Body.Bytes()
+		assert.Equal(t, *sampleResponse, result)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestMiddlewareSmall(t *testing.T) {
+	m, sampleResponse := setup([]byte("Small response"))
+
+	reqNoAcceptGzip(t, m, sampleResponse)
+
+	reqAcceptGzip(t, m, sampleResponse, false)
+}
+
+func TestMiddlewareLarge(t *testing.T) {
+	b := make([]byte, MinSize+1)
+	for i := range b {
+		b[i] = byte(i % 256)
+	}
+	m, sampleResponse := setup(b)
+
+	reqNoAcceptGzip(t, m, sampleResponse)
+
+	// This should be gzipped as we accept gzip
+	reqAcceptGzip(t, m, sampleResponse, true)
+}
+
+func TestMiddlewareGzip(t *testing.T) {
+	b := make([]byte, MinSize*10)
+	for i := range b {
+		b[i] = byte(i % 256)
+	}
+	outputBuffer := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{})
+	gzippWriter := gzipp.NewWriter(outputBuffer)
+	gzippWriter.Write(b)
+	gzippWriter.Flush()
+	gzippWriter.Close()
+	output := outputBuffer.Bytes()
+
+	m, sampleResponse := setup(output)
+
+	reqNoAcceptGzip(t, m, sampleResponse)
+
+	// This should not be gzipped even though we accept gzip
+	reqAcceptGzip(t, m, sampleResponse, false)
+}
+
+func TestMiddlewareZip(t *testing.T) {
+	b := make([]byte, MinSize*10)
+	for i := range b {
+		b[i] = byte(i % 256)
+	}
+	outputBuffer := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{})
+	zipWriter := zip.NewWriter(outputBuffer)
+	fileWriter, err := zipWriter.Create("default")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	fileWriter.Write(b)
+	//fileWriter.Close()
+	zipWriter.Close()
+	output := outputBuffer.Bytes()
+
+	m, sampleResponse := setup(output)
+
+	reqNoAcceptGzip(t, m, sampleResponse)
+
+	// This should not be gzipped even though we accept gzip
+	reqAcceptGzip(t, m, sampleResponse, false)
+}
diff --git a/routers/routes/routes.go b/routers/routes/routes.go
index a3bf3f753a5..c012d5c3c2e 100644
--- a/routers/routes/routes.go
+++ b/routers/routes/routes.go
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import (
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/models"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/auth"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/context"
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/gzip"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/lfs"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/log"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/metrics"
@@ -36,7 +37,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/go-macaron/cache"
 	"github.com/go-macaron/captcha"
 	"github.com/go-macaron/csrf"
-	"github.com/go-macaron/gzip"
 	"github.com/go-macaron/i18n"
 	"github.com/go-macaron/session"
 	"github.com/go-macaron/toolbox"
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ func NewMacaron() *macaron.Macaron {
 	}
 	m.Use(macaron.Recovery())
 	if setting.EnableGzip {
-		m.Use(gzip.Gziper())
+		m.Use(gzip.Middleware())
 	}
 	if setting.Protocol == setting.FCGI {
 		m.SetURLPrefix(setting.AppSubURL)