Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.
Brotli is open-sourced under the MIT License.
The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in RFC 7932.
Brotli encoding is supported by most web browsers, major web servers, and some CDNs.