diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yaml b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..82c33ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+name: Build
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: [3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9]
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.setup.version }}
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+    - name: Lint with flake8
+      run: |
+        pip install flake8
+        # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
+        flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+        # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
+        flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=13 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        pip install -r requirements.txt -r requirements.test.txt
+    - name: Test with pytest
+      run: |
+        pytest tests/
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diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3ac6e56..fed7de9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -108,9 +108,9 @@ celerybeat.pid
 
 # Environments
 .env
-.venv
+.venv*
 env/
-venv/
+venv*/
 ENV/
 env.bak/
 venv.bak/
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index dc79a18..5c503f7 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 include MANIFEST.in
 include requirements.txt
+include requirements.test.txt
+include tests *
 include README.md
 include LICENSE
diff --git a/requirements.test.txt b/requirements.test.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0275095
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.test.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+requests
+pytest
+pytest-benchmark
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 60eace4..0833761 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ def parse_requirements(filename):
     lineiter = (line.strip() for line in open(filename))
     return [line for line in lineiter if line and not line.startswith("#")]
 
+
 setup(
     name='Flask-Inflate',
     version='0.3',
@@ -26,6 +27,8 @@ def parse_requirements(filename):
     include_package_data=True,
     platforms='any',
     install_requires=parse_requirements('requirements.txt'),
+    test_suite="tests",
+    tests_require=parse_requirements('requirements.test.txt'),
     classifiers=[
           'Framework :: Flask',
           'Environment :: Web Environment',
diff --git a/tests/__init__.py b/tests/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/tests/test_performance.py b/tests/test_performance.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..287d694
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_performance.py
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+import gzip
+import json
+import random
+
+import pytest
+from flask import Flask, request, jsonify
+from flask_inflate import inflate
+
+app = Flask(__name__)
+
+
+@app.route('/naive', methods=["POST"])
+def without_inflate():
+    json_payload = gzip.decompress(request.get_data()) if request.content_encoding == "gzip" else request.get_data(as_text=True)
+    json.loads(json_payload)
+    return jsonify("OK")
+
+
+@app.route('/inflate', methods=["POST"])
+@inflate
+def with_inflate():
+    # I could've used .get_json() or .json here but just to be explicit about the fact it's doing the same
+    # as the naive route
+    json_payload = request.get_data(as_text=True)
+    json.loads(json_payload)
+    return jsonify("OK")
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def client():
+    with app.test_client() as client:
+        yield client
+
+
+def generate_compressed_payload(n_keys):
+    random_json = {
+        "random_text{}".format(i): ' '.join(random.choice(["some", "repeating", "words"]) for _ in range(150))
+        for i in range(n_keys)
+    }
+
+    raw_json = json.dumps(random_json).encode("utf-8")
+    return gzip.compress(raw_json)
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def gzipped_payload():
+    yield generate_compressed_payload(1000)
+
+
+def test_inflate(gzipped_payload, client, benchmark):
+    send_request(client, gzipped_payload, False, True) # warmup
+    result = benchmark.pedantic(send_request, args=(client, gzipped_payload), kwargs={"naive": False, "compressed": True}, rounds=1000)
+    assert result == "OK"
+
+
+def test_naive(gzipped_payload, client, benchmark):
+    send_request(client, gzipped_payload, True, True)
+    result = benchmark.pedantic(send_request, args=(client, gzipped_payload), kwargs={"naive": True, "compressed": True}, rounds=1000)
+    assert result == "OK"
+
+
+def send_request(_client, payload, naive=False, compressed=True):
+    headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}
+    if compressed:
+        headers["Content-Encoding"] = "gzip"
+
+    path = 'naive' if naive else 'inflate'
+    return _client.post('http://localhost:5000/{}'.format(path), data=payload, headers=headers).json
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    import cProfile
+
+    with app.test_client() as client:
+        payload = generate_compressed_payload(1000)
+
+        send_request(client, payload, True, True) # warmup
+        send_request(client, payload, False, True) # warmup
+        cProfile.run('send_request(client, payload, True, True)', sort='cumtime')
+        cProfile.run('send_request(client, payload, False, True)', sort='cumtime')