diff --git a/plugins/requesttracker/rt_ticket_loadtime b/plugins/requesttracker/rt_ticket_loadtime
index 576f5ad5..9f0b9d5d 100755
--- a/plugins/requesttracker/rt_ticket_loadtime
+++ b/plugins/requesttracker/rt_ticket_loadtime
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ url_webui="${web_url}Ticket/Display.html?id=${ticket_id}&user=${username}&pass=$
 url_rest="${web_url}REST/1.0/ticket/${ticket_id}/history?format=l&user=${username}&pass=${password}"
 
 cd $tmpdir || exit1
-loadtime_webui=$($time --portability $wget $wget_opts $url_webui 2>&1 | awk '/^real / {print $2}')
+loadtime_webui=$($time --portability $wget $wget_opts --header='Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate' $url_webui 2>&1 | awk '/^real / {print $2}')
 loadtime_rest=$($time --portability $wget $wget_opts $url_rest 2>&1 | awk '/^real / {print $2}')
 cd ..