diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 33a5fe48f..3f8fb4fbc 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Release Notes
 
+## 0.3.10 (TBD)
+
+### titiler.application
+
+- switch to `starlette_cramjam` compression middleware (ref: https://github.com/developmentseed/titiler/issues/369)
+
 ## 0.3.9 (2021-09-07)
 
 ### titiler.core
diff --git a/src/titiler/application/setup.py b/src/titiler/application/setup.py
index 9f07687ca..afb3f55ac 100644
--- a/src/titiler/application/setup.py
+++ b/src/titiler/application/setup.py
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@
     "rio-cogeo>=2.2",
     "titiler.core",
     "titiler.mosaic",
-    "brotli-asgi>=1.0.0",
+    "starlette-cramjam>=0.1.0,<0.2",
     "python-dotenv",
 ]
 extra_reqs = {
-    "test": ["pytest", "pytest-cov", "pytest-asyncio", "requests"],
+    "test": ["pytest", "pytest-cov", "pytest-asyncio", "requests", "brotlipy"],
     "server": ["uvicorn[standard]>=0.12.0,<0.14.0"],
 }
 
diff --git a/src/titiler/application/tests/routes/test_cog.py b/src/titiler/application/tests/routes/test_cog.py
index 860ae9472..04375bde3 100644
--- a/src/titiler/application/tests/routes/test_cog.py
+++ b/src/titiler/application/tests/routes/test_cog.py
@@ -194,6 +194,15 @@ def test_tile(rio, app):
     assert response.status_code == 200
     assert response.headers["content-encoding"] == "br"
 
+    # Exclude png from compression middleware
+    headers = {"Accept-Encoding": "br, gzip"}
+    response = app.get(
+        "/cog/tiles/8/87/48.png?url=https://myurl.com/cog.tif&nodata=0&return_mask=false",
+        headers=headers,
+    )
+    assert response.status_code == 200
+    assert "content-encoding" not in response.headers
+
     # Test gzip fallback
     headers = {"Accept-Encoding": "gzip"}
     response = app.get(
diff --git a/src/titiler/application/titiler/application/main.py b/src/titiler/application/titiler/application/main.py
index 0153187ab..5b2fca43e 100644
--- a/src/titiler/application/titiler/application/main.py
+++ b/src/titiler/application/titiler/application/main.py
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 import logging
 
-from brotli_asgi import BrotliMiddleware
-
 from titiler.application.custom import templates
 from titiler.application.routers import cog, mosaic, stac, tms
 from titiler.application.settings import ApiSettings
@@ -22,6 +20,7 @@
 from starlette.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
 from starlette.requests import Request
 from starlette.responses import HTMLResponse
+from starlette_cramjam.middleware import CompressionMiddleware
 
 logging.getLogger("botocore.credentials").disabled = True
 logging.getLogger("botocore.utils").disabled = True
@@ -62,7 +61,18 @@
         allow_headers=["*"],
     )
 
-app.add_middleware(BrotliMiddleware, minimum_size=0, gzip_fallback=True)
+app.add_middleware(
+    CompressionMiddleware,
+    minimum_size=0,
+    exclude_mediatype={
+        "image/jpeg",
+        "image/jpg",
+        "image/png",
+        "image/jp2",
+        "image/webp",
+    },
+)
+
 app.add_middleware(
     CacheControlMiddleware,
     cachecontrol=api_settings.cachecontrol,