diff --git a/loadtest/README.md b/loadtest/README.md
index 0effa0e3..8caaa441 100644
--- a/loadtest/README.md
+++ b/loadtest/README.md
@@ -54,11 +54,18 @@ Please clean up afterwards :-)
 
 To run only one test:
 ```
-molotov --max-runs 1 --single-mode <name of scenario> -v publish.py
+molotov --max-runs 1 --single-mode <scenario_name> -v publish.py
 ```
 Notice `-v` enables verbose mode, which outputs errors. This is especially
 useful while finalizing a specific scenario.
 
+To run only one test, but with several workers in parallel:
+```
+molotov -v --single <scenario_name> -w <parallel_workers> --max-runs 1 publish.py
+```
+By running this command with `time` it's possible to accurately measure how the
+server behaves with a lot of parallel calls.
+
 To run the scenarios during 5 seconds, with 50 workers, this is how we can do it:
 ```
 molotov -d 5 -w 50 -v publish.py
diff --git a/loadtest/publish.py b/loadtest/publish.py
index ea6ea954..cbaf2dc3 100644
--- a/loadtest/publish.py
+++ b/loadtest/publish.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import json
 import os
 import base64
+import gzip
 from molotov import scenario, setup, global_setup, teardown, global_teardown
 from molotov import set_var, get_var
 
@@ -26,6 +27,12 @@
 # This is the various file sizes we'll generate in the global setup.
 _FILE_SIZES = (512, 1024, 5 * 1024, 20 * 1024)
 
+# These are gzip-compressed chunks of json that we'll concatenate later to
+# generate our payload. This takes advantage that a gzip stream is made of
+# concatenated gzip chunks.
+_COMPRESSED_JSON_PREFIX = gzip.compress(b'{"foo":"')
+_COMPRESSED_JSON_SUFFIX = gzip.compress(b'"}')
+
 
 def setup_api_endpoint():
     """Sets up the _API global that we use in all scenarii.
@@ -62,7 +69,11 @@ def test_starts(args):
     * we generate the various files to be sent in the tests.
     """
     setup_api_endpoint()
-    files = {x: os.urandom(x * 1024) for x in _FILE_SIZES}
+    # "512" instead of "1024" because writing in hexadecimal takes 2 bytes.
+    files = {x: gzip.compress(
+                 os.urandom(x * 512).hex().encode(),
+                 compresslevel=0)
+             for x in _FILE_SIZES}
     set_var("files", files)
 
 
@@ -131,6 +142,25 @@ def jwt_base64_decode(payload):
     return decoded_str
 
 
+def payload_from_raw_data(raw_data):
+    """Returns a data suitable to publish, that's accepted by the profiler server.
+
+    This concatenates separate pre-created gzip-compressed chunks, because we
+    want that we do as less work as possible at runtime. Here at runtime we
+    only compress a very small chunk and otherwise concatenate everything.
+    """
+    # By adding some random bytes, the content will change for each test and
+    # therefore the filename too. This prevents google from erroring while we
+    # stress test.
+    unique_data = gzip.compress(os.urandom(10).hex().encode(), compresslevel=0)
+    return (
+            _COMPRESSED_JSON_PREFIX +
+            raw_data +
+            unique_data +
+            _COMPRESSED_JSON_SUFFIX
+           )
+
+
 async def publish(session, data_size):
     """Publishes a profile with the passed data size
     """
@@ -143,10 +173,7 @@ async def publish(session, data_size):
                 )
 
     data = get_var('files')[data_size]
-    # By adding some random bytes, the content will change for each test and
-    # therefore the filename too. This prevents google from erroring while we
-    # stress test.
-    data = data + os.urandom(10)
+    data = payload_from_raw_data(data)
 
     async with session.post(_API + '/compressed-store', data=data) as resp:
         assert resp.status == 200
diff --git a/loadtest/publish_short_requests.py b/loadtest/publish_short_requests.py
index 461f2b0f..64196e28 100644
--- a/loadtest/publish_short_requests.py
+++ b/loadtest/publish_short_requests.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import json
 import os
 import base64
+import gzip
 from molotov import scenario, setup, global_setup, teardown, global_teardown
 from molotov import set_var, get_var
 
@@ -27,6 +28,12 @@
 # This is the various file sizes we'll generate in the global setup.
 _FILE_SIZES = (1, 10, 50)
 
+# These are gzip-compressed chunks of json that we'll concatenate later to
+# generate our payload. This takes advantage that a gzip stream is made of
+# concatenated gzip chunks.
+_COMPRESSED_JSON_PREFIX = gzip.compress(b'{"foo":"')
+_COMPRESSED_JSON_SUFFIX = gzip.compress(b'"}')
+
 
 def setup_api_endpoint():
     """Sets up the _API global that we use in all scenarii.
@@ -63,7 +70,11 @@ def test_starts(args):
     * we generate the various files to be sent in the tests.
     """
     setup_api_endpoint()
-    files = {x: os.urandom(x * 1024) for x in _FILE_SIZES}
+    # "512" instead of "1024" because writing in hexadecimal takes 2 bytes.
+    files = {x: gzip.compress(
+                 os.urandom(x * 512).hex().encode(),
+                 compresslevel=0)
+             for x in _FILE_SIZES}
     set_var("files", files)
 
 
@@ -132,6 +143,25 @@ def jwt_base64_decode(payload):
     return decoded_str
 
 
+def payload_from_raw_data(raw_data):
+    """Returns a data suitable to publish, that's accepted by the profiler server.
+
+    This concatenates separate pre-created gzip-compressed chunks, because we
+    want that we do as less work as possible at runtime. Here at runtime we
+    only compress a very small chunk and otherwise concatenate everything.
+    """
+    # By adding some random bytes, the content will change for each test and
+    # therefore the filename too. This prevents google from erroring while we
+    # stress test.
+    unique_data = gzip.compress(os.urandom(10).hex().encode(), compresslevel=0)
+    return (
+            _COMPRESSED_JSON_PREFIX +
+            raw_data +
+            unique_data +
+            _COMPRESSED_JSON_SUFFIX
+           )
+
+
 async def publish(session, data_size):
     """Publishes a profile with the passed data size
     """
@@ -144,10 +174,7 @@ async def publish(session, data_size):
                 )
 
     data = get_var('files')[data_size]
-    # By adding some random bytes, the content will change for each test and
-    # therefore the filename too. This prevents google from erroring while we
-    # stress test.
-    data = data + os.urandom(10)
+    data = payload_from_raw_data(data)
 
     async with session.post(_API + '/compressed-store', data=data) as resp:
         assert resp.status == 200
@@ -173,6 +200,12 @@ async def delete(session, jwt_token):
 
 # Each scenario has a weight. Molotov uses it to determine how often the
 # scenario is picked.
+@scenario(1)
+async def publish_and_delete(session):
+    jwt_token = await publish(session=session, data_size=10)
+    await delete(session=session, jwt_token=jwt_token)
+
+
 @scenario(2)
 async def publish_1k(session):
     await publish(session=session, data_size=1)