diff --git a/OpenMeteo/OpenMeteo.cs b/OpenMeteo/OpenMeteo.cs
index ed6ed26..71a22d9 100644
--- a/OpenMeteo/OpenMeteo.cs
+++ b/OpenMeteo/OpenMeteo.cs
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ public OpenMeteoClient(HttpClient client)
 
         public OpenMeteoClient()
         {
-            this.Client = new HttpClient(new RetryHandler(new HttpClientHandler()));
+            HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler();
+            handler.AutomaticDecompression = System.Net.DecompressionMethods.Deflate | System.Net.DecompressionMethods.GZip;
+            this.Client = new HttpClient(new RetryHandler(handler));
+            this.Client.DefaultRequestHeaders.TryAddWithoutValidation("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate");
         }
 
         /// <summary>
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9dc0387..fb8a20f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
 # dotnet
-.NET bindings to decode Open-Meteo Weather API responses based on FlatBuffers
+.NET bindings to decode Open-Meteo Weather API responses based on FlatBuffers.
+
+This library provides only basic functionality to decode binary FlatBuffers messages to efficiently transfer large amounts of weather data. It does not provide high level abstraction.
+
+