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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Compression crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Algorithms for making data smaller.” Below are the 15 crates in it among the 1000 most-downloaded crates, ranked by real downloads (quiet-day baseline) instead of raw count.
Short answerBy steady daily use, miniz_oxide leads Compression with 2,510,979 real downloads a day (established and gaining). 3 of the 15 have 1,000+ dependents; 1 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 2.8% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
15 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| miniz_oxideEstablished | 2,510,979 | 443 | 7mo | +15% | 1B | |
| flate2Widely used | 2,127,583 | 7,758 | 57d | +4% | 780M | |
| zstd-safePulled in | 1,111,608 | 55 | 8d | +6% | 451M | |
| zstdWidely used | 1,083,388 | 2,614 | 8d | +6% | 441M | |
| zstd-sysPulled in | 1,052,310 | 57 | 8d | +1% | 406M | |
| zipWidely used | 977,272 | 4,151 | 7d | +6% | 314M | |
| brotliEstablished | 841,265 | 613 | 52d | +12% | 302M | |
| fdeflatePulled in | 764,213 | 8 | 23mo | +19% | 199M | |
| async-compressionEstablished | 707,872 | 387 | 7d | +11% | 251M | |
| leb128fmtPulled in | 629,549 | 4 | 3.1y | -14% | 136M | |
| compression-corePulled in | 561,038 | 4 | 7d | +12% | 116M | |
| zopfliPulled in | 554,646 | 25 | 13d | +4% | 146M | |
| compression-codecsPulled in | 543,190 | 5 | 7d | +20% | 117M | |
| libz-sysEstablished | 455,887 | 144 | 12d | -8% | 249M | |
| bzip2Established | 435,362 | 580 | 12mo | -3% | 183M |
Click a column to sort; press + to add a crate to a comparison. Real / day = median downloads on days with no release that day or the day before. Each crate's page shows its verdict and the 4 rules behind it. Why this method · this category on crates.io
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