I have a slightly related question. I host my blog on a cheap VPS, it's mostly text-based with few photos. Every page weighs less than a couple of kilobytes. Are there any benefits to using Brotli or gzip compression when serving the files?

What's faster: downloading an uncompressed 5KB file or downloading a compressed 3KB file and decompressing it?

I use Caddy, the files would be precompressed.