diff --git a/classes/rssutils.php b/classes/rssutils.php
index ea57e6466..28bdda78b 100755
--- a/classes/rssutils.php
+++ b/classes/rssutils.php
@@ -1612,7 +1612,7 @@ class RSSUtils {
 		}
 	}
 
-	private static function is_gzipped($feed_data) {
+	static function is_gzipped($feed_data) {
 		return mb_strpos($feed_data, "\x1f" . "\x8b" . "\x08", 0, "US-ASCII") === 0;
 	}
 
diff --git a/include/functions.php b/include/functions.php
index 1d83a41da..24c251bd3 100755
--- a/include/functions.php
+++ b/include/functions.php
@@ -437,6 +437,14 @@
 
 			curl_close($ch);
 
+			$is_gzipped = RSSUtils::is_gzipped($contents);
+
+			if ($is_gzipped) {
+				$tmp = @gzdecode($contents);
+
+				if ($tmp) $contents = $tmp;
+			}
+
 			return $contents;
 		} else {
 
@@ -522,6 +530,15 @@
 
 				return false;
 			}
+
+			$is_gzipped = RSSUtils::is_gzipped($data);
+
+			if ($is_gzipped) {
+				$tmp = @gzdecode($data);
+
+				if ($tmp) $data = $tmp;
+			}
+
 			return $data;
 		}
 
diff --git a/plugins/af_readability/init.php b/plugins/af_readability/init.php
index 339cc20d2..273f3d46b 100755
--- a/plugins/af_readability/init.php
+++ b/plugins/af_readability/init.php
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ class Af_Readability extends Plugin {
 	}
 
 	public function extract_content($url) {
+
 		global $fetch_effective_url;
 
 		$tmp = fetch_file_contents([
@@ -158,7 +159,7 @@ class Af_Readability extends Plugin {
 		if ($tmp && mb_strlen($tmp) < 1024 * 500) {
 			$tmpdoc = new DOMDocument("1.0", "UTF-8");
 
-			if (!$tmpdoc->loadHTML('<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?>\n' . $tmp))
+			if (!$tmpdoc->loadHTML($tmp))
 				return false;
 
 			if (strtolower($tmpdoc->encoding) != 'utf-8') {