diff --git a/ccx_messaging/publishers/kafka_publisher.py b/ccx_messaging/publishers/kafka_publisher.py
index 8446276..402e710 100644
--- a/ccx_messaging/publishers/kafka_publisher.py
+++ b/ccx_messaging/publishers/kafka_publisher.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 from ccx_messaging.error import CCXMessagingError
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-DEFAULT_COMPRESSION = 9
+BEST_COMPRESSION = 9
 
 class KafkaPublisher(Publisher):
     """
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def __init__(self, outgoing_topic: str, kafka_broker_config: dict = None, **kwar
     def produce(self, outgoing_message: bytes):
         """Send the message though the Kafka producer."""
         if self.compression:
-            self.producer.produce(self.topic, gzip.compress(outgoing_message,compresslevel=DEFAULT_COMPRESSION))
+            self.producer.produce(self.topic, gzip.compress(outgoing_message,compresslevel=BEST_COMPRESSION))
         else:
             self.producer.produce(self.topic, outgoing_message)
         self.producer.poll(0)
diff --git a/test/publishers/kafka_publisher_test.py b/test/publishers/kafka_publisher_test.py
index 4c54e13..bdebaa3 100644
--- a/test/publishers/kafka_publisher_test.py
+++ b/test/publishers/kafka_publisher_test.py
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
         }
     ),
 ]
-DEFAULT_COMPRESSION = 9
+BEST_COMPRESSION = 9
 
 def test_init():
     """Check that init creates a valid object."""
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ def test_init_compression():
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("input", VALID_INPUT_MSG)
 def test_compressing_enabled(input):
     input = bytes(json.dumps(input) + "\n",'utf-8')
-    expected_output = gzip.compress(input,compresslevel=DEFAULT_COMPRESSION)
+    expected_output = gzip.compress(input,compresslevel=BEST_COMPRESSION)
     kakfa_config = {
         "bootstrap.servers": "kafka:9092",
         "compression" : "gzip"