diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
index 166b2e0d48..cc290b3343 100644
--- a/.golangci.yml
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ linters-settings:
           desc: "Use github.com/grafana/regexp instead of regexp"
         - pkg: "github.com/pkg/errors"
           desc: "Use 'errors' or 'fmt' instead of github.com/pkg/errors"
+        - pkg: "gzip"
+          desc: "Use github.com/klauspost/compress instead of gzip"
+        - pkg: "zlib"
+          desc: "Use github.com/klauspost/compress instead of zlib"
   errcheck:
     exclude-functions:
       # Don't flag lines such as "io.Copy(io.Discard, resp.Body)".
diff --git a/cmd/promtool/archive.go b/cmd/promtool/archive.go
index 6edb741acd..7b565c57cc 100644
--- a/cmd/promtool/archive.go
+++ b/cmd/promtool/archive.go
@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"archive/tar"
-	"compress/gzip"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+
+	"github.com/klauspost/compress/gzip"
 )
 
 const filePerm = 0o666
diff --git a/model/textparse/promparse_test.go b/model/textparse/promparse_test.go
index d82bfe598d..cbfc8aa6cc 100644
--- a/model/textparse/promparse_test.go
+++ b/model/textparse/promparse_test.go
@@ -15,15 +15,16 @@ package textparse
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
-	"compress/gzip"
 	"errors"
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"testing"
 
+	"github.com/klauspost/compress/gzip"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
 	"github.com/prometheus/common/expfmt"
 	"github.com/prometheus/common/model"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 
 	"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/model/labels"
 	"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/util/testutil"
diff --git a/scrape/scrape.go b/scrape/scrape.go
index dfa945852c..de35b9e408 100644
--- a/scrape/scrape.go
+++ b/scrape/scrape.go
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ package scrape
 import (
 	"bufio"
 	"bytes"
-	"compress/gzip"
 	"context"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
@@ -31,6 +30,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/go-kit/log"
 	"github.com/go-kit/log/level"
+	"github.com/klauspost/compress/gzip"
 	config_util "github.com/prometheus/common/config"
 	"github.com/prometheus/common/model"
 	"github.com/prometheus/common/version"
diff --git a/scrape/scrape_test.go b/scrape/scrape_test.go
index badeee2d1c..eefa7be66f 100644
--- a/scrape/scrape_test.go
+++ b/scrape/scrape_test.go
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import (
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
 	"net/url"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"testing"
@@ -3518,3 +3519,76 @@ func TestPickSchema(t *testing.T) {
 		require.Equal(t, tc.schema, schema)
 	}
 }
+
+func BenchmarkTargetScraperGzip(b *testing.B) {
+	scenarios := []struct {
+		metricsCount int
+		body         []byte
+	}{
+		{metricsCount: 1},
+		{metricsCount: 100},
+		{metricsCount: 1000},
+		{metricsCount: 10000},
+		{metricsCount: 100000},
+	}
+
+	for i := 0; i < len(scenarios); i++ {
+		var buf bytes.Buffer
+		var name string
+		gw := gzip.NewWriter(&buf)
+		for j := 0; j < scenarios[i].metricsCount; j++ {
+			name = fmt.Sprintf("go_memstats_alloc_bytes_total_%d", j)
+			fmt.Fprintf(gw, "# HELP %s Total number of bytes allocated, even if freed.\n", name)
+			fmt.Fprintf(gw, "# TYPE %s counter\n", name)
+			fmt.Fprintf(gw, "%s %d\n", name, i*j)
+		}
+		gw.Close()
+		scenarios[i].body = buf.Bytes()
+	}
+
+	handler := http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", `text/plain; version=0.0.4`)
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Encoding", "gzip")
+		for _, scenario := range scenarios {
+			if strconv.Itoa(scenario.metricsCount) == r.URL.Query()["count"][0] {
+				w.Write(scenario.body)
+				return
+			}
+		}
+		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusBadRequest)
+	})
+
+	server := httptest.NewServer(handler)
+	defer server.Close()
+
+	serverURL, err := url.Parse(server.URL)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+
+	client, err := config_util.NewClientFromConfig(config_util.DefaultHTTPClientConfig, "test_job")
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+
+	for _, scenario := range scenarios {
+		b.Run(fmt.Sprintf("metrics=%d", scenario.metricsCount), func(b *testing.B) {
+			ts := &targetScraper{
+				Target: &Target{
+					labels: labels.FromStrings(
+						model.SchemeLabel, serverURL.Scheme,
+						model.AddressLabel, serverURL.Host,
+					),
+					params: url.Values{"count": []string{strconv.Itoa(scenario.metricsCount)}},
+				},
+				client:  client,
+				timeout: time.Second,
+			}
+			b.ResetTimer()
+			for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+				_, err = ts.scrape(context.Background())
+				require.NoError(b, err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/util/httputil/compression.go b/util/httputil/compression.go
index b96c088cbb..9a8a666453 100644
--- a/util/httputil/compression.go
+++ b/util/httputil/compression.go
@@ -14,11 +14,12 @@
 package httputil
 
 import (
-	"compress/gzip"
-	"compress/zlib"
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
 	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/klauspost/compress/gzip"
+	"github.com/klauspost/compress/zlib"
 )
 
 const (
diff --git a/util/httputil/compression_test.go b/util/httputil/compression_test.go
index 8512797613..2db6810bd7 100644
--- a/util/httputil/compression_test.go
+++ b/util/httputil/compression_test.go
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ package httputil
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
-	"compress/gzip"
-	"compress/zlib"
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
 	"testing"
 
+	"github.com/klauspost/compress/gzip"
+	"github.com/klauspost/compress/zlib"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )