diff --git a/modules/default/calendar/calendarfetcher.js b/modules/default/calendar/calendarfetcher.js
index ccd1f6c8..60ee8fc7 100644
--- a/modules/default/calendar/calendarfetcher.js
+++ b/modules/default/calendar/calendarfetcher.js
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ var CalendarFetcher = function(url, reloadInterval, excludedEvents, maximumEntri
 		var opts = {
 			headers: {
 				"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Node.js "+ nodeVersion + ") MagicMirror/"  + global.version +  " (https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/)"
-			}
+			},
+			gzip: true
 		};
 
 		if (auth) {