diff --git a/actix-web/CHANGES.md b/actix-web/CHANGES.md
index cee14dc4b7e..7f6996d68f8 100644
--- a/actix-web/CHANGES.md
+++ b/actix-web/CHANGES.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 - On Windows, an error is now returned from `HttpServer::bind()` (or TLS variants) when binding to a socket that's already in use.
 - Update `brotli` dependency to `7`.
 - Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.75.
+- Fix Svg images not being compressed by the `Compress` middleware.
 
 ## 4.9.0
 
diff --git a/actix-web/src/middleware/compress.rs b/actix-web/src/middleware/compress.rs
index 943868d2166..fccfaffeed9 100644
--- a/actix-web/src/middleware/compress.rs
+++ b/actix-web/src/middleware/compress.rs
@@ -191,7 +191,12 @@ where
                             None => true,
                             Some(hdr) => {
                                 match hdr.to_str().ok().and_then(|hdr| hdr.parse::<Mime>().ok()) {
-                                    Some(mime) if mime.type_().as_str() == "image" => false,
+                                    Some(mime)
+                                        if mime.type_().as_str() == "image"
+                                            && mime.subtype().as_str() != "svg+xml" =>
+                                    {
+                                        false
+                                    }
                                     Some(mime) if mime.type_().as_str() == "video" => false,
                                     _ => true,
                                 }