diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/nginx/default.nix b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/nginx/default.nix
index 02b173b1e957..3d19186e1a9d 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/nginx/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/nginx/default.nix
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ let
 
   # Mime.types values are taken from brotli sample configuration - https://github.com/google/ngx_brotli
   # and Nginx Server Configs - https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx
+  # "text/html" is implicitly included in {brotli,gzip,zstd}_types
   compressMimeTypes = [
     "application/atom+xml"
     "application/geo+json"
@@ -55,7 +56,6 @@ let
     "text/calendar"
     "text/css"
     "text/csv"
-    "text/html"
     "text/javascript"
     "text/markdown"
     "text/plain"