diff --git a/gzip.go b/gzip.go
index f835550..d3e77a0 100644
--- a/gzip.go
+++ b/gzip.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// Package gziphandler is a tiny Go package which wraps
+// HTTP handlers to transparently gzip the response body,
+// for clients which support it.
 package gziphandler
 
 import (