diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 10b6917..04f3552 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+unreleased
+==========
+
+  * Add configurable preferred sorting order for `Accept-Encoding`
+
 0.6.1 / 2016-05-02
 ==================
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 04a67ff..e3d5cee 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ You can check a working example at `examples/encoding.js`.
 
 Returns the most preferred encoding from the client.
 
-##### encoding(availableEncodings)
+##### encoding(availableEncodings, options)
 
 Returns the most preferred encoding from a list of available encodings.
 
@@ -176,11 +176,21 @@ Returns the most preferred encoding from a list of available encodings.
 
 Returns an array of preferred encodings ordered by the client preference.
 
-##### encodings(availableEncodings)
+##### encodings(availableEncodings, options)
 
 Returns an array of preferred encodings ordered by priority from a list of
 available encodings.
 
+The options has one available option. The default value if not specified is
+```js
+{ sortPreference: 'client' }
+```
+
+#### Sort options
+`client`: sorts first by client quality level and then by client given order
+`clientThenServer`: sorts first by client quality level and then by server given order
+`server`: sorts by server given order
+
 ## See Also
 
 The [accepts](https://npmjs.org/package/accepts#readme) module builds on
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 8d4f6a2..a2eb666 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -47,14 +47,14 @@ Negotiator.prototype.charsets = function charsets(available) {
   return preferredCharsets(this.request.headers['accept-charset'], available);
 };
 
-Negotiator.prototype.encoding = function encoding(available) {
-  var set = this.encodings(available);
+Negotiator.prototype.encoding = function encoding(available, options) {
+  var set = this.encodings(available, options);
   return set && set[0];
 };
 
-Negotiator.prototype.encodings = function encodings(available) {
+Negotiator.prototype.encodings = function encodings(available, options) {
   var preferredEncodings = loadModule('encoding').preferredEncodings;
-  return preferredEncodings(this.request.headers['accept-encoding'], available);
+  return preferredEncodings(this.request.headers['accept-encoding'], available, options);
 };
 
 Negotiator.prototype.language = function language(available) {
diff --git a/lib/encoding.js b/lib/encoding.js
index 70ac3de..8303dd1 100644
--- a/lib/encoding.js
+++ b/lib/encoding.js
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ module.exports.preferredEncodings = preferredEncodings;
  */
 
 var simpleEncodingRegExp = /^\s*([^\s;]+)\s*(?:;(.*))?$/;
+var comparators = {
+  client: compareSpecsPreferClient,
+  clientThenServer: compareSpecsPreferClientThenServer,
+  server: compareSpecsPreferServer
+};
 
 /**
  * Parse the Accept-Encoding header.
@@ -50,7 +55,7 @@ function parseAcceptEncoding(accept) {
      */
     accepts[j++] = {
       encoding: 'identity',
-      q: minQuality,
+      q: minQuality * 0.1,
       i: i
     };
   }
@@ -74,8 +79,8 @@ function parseEncoding(str, i) {
   var q = 1;
   if (match[2]) {
     var params = match[2].split(';');
-    for (var i = 0; i < params.length; i ++) {
-      var p = params[i].trim().split('=');
+    for (var j = 0; j < params.length; j ++) {
+      var p = params[j].trim().split('=');
       if (p[0] === 'q') {
         q = parseFloat(p[1]);
         break;
@@ -135,14 +140,14 @@ function specify(encoding, spec, index) {
  * @public
  */
 
-function preferredEncodings(accept, provided) {
+function preferredEncodings(accept, provided, options) {
   var accepts = parseAcceptEncoding(accept || '');
 
   if (!provided) {
     // sorted list of all encodings
     return accepts
       .filter(isQuality)
-      .sort(compareSpecs)
+      .sort(compareSpecsPreferClient)
       .map(getFullEncoding);
   }
 
@@ -150,8 +155,10 @@ function preferredEncodings(accept, provided) {
     return getEncodingPriority(type, accepts, index);
   });
 
+  var comparator = options && comparators[options.sortPreference] || compareSpecsPreferClient
+
   // sorted list of accepted encodings
-  return priorities.filter(isQuality).sort(compareSpecs).map(function getEncoding(priority) {
+  return priorities.filter(isQuality).sort(comparator).map(function getEncoding(priority) {
     return provided[priorities.indexOf(priority)];
   });
 }
@@ -161,8 +168,26 @@ function preferredEncodings(accept, provided) {
  * @private
  */
 
-function compareSpecs(a, b) {
-  return (b.q - a.q) || (b.s - a.s) || (a.o - b.o) || (a.i - b.i) || 0;
+function compareSpecsPreferClient(a, b) {
+  return (b.q - a.q) || (b.s - a.s) || (a.o - b.o) || 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Compare two specs.
+ * @private
+ */
+
+function compareSpecsPreferClientThenServer(a, b) {
+  return (b.q - a.q) || (a.i - b.i) || 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Compare two specs, ignoring client quality levels.
+ * @private
+ */
+
+function compareSpecsPreferServer(a, b) {
+  return (a.i - b.i) || 0;
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/test/encoding.js b/test/encoding.js
index d6cc2b5..b274122 100644
--- a/test/encoding.js
+++ b/test/encoding.js
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 var assert = require('assert')
 var Negotiator = require('..')
 
+var clientPreference = { sortPreference: 'client'}
+var serverPreference = { sortPreference: 'server'}
+var clientThenServerPreference = { sortPreference: 'clientThenServer'}
+
 describe('negotiator.encoding()', function () {
   whenAcceptEncoding(undefined, function () {
     it('should return identity', function () {
@@ -112,6 +116,12 @@ describe('negotiator.encoding(array)', function () {
       assert.strictEqual(this.negotiator.encoding(['gzip']), 'gzip')
       assert.strictEqual(this.negotiator.encoding(['compress', 'gzip']), 'gzip')
     })
+
+    it('clientThenServerPreference: should return server-preferred encoding', function () {
+      assert.strictEqual(this.negotiator.encoding(['identity'], clientThenServerPreference), 'identity')
+      assert.strictEqual(this.negotiator.encoding(['gzip'], clientThenServerPreference), 'gzip')
+      assert.strictEqual(this.negotiator.encoding(['compress', 'gzip'], clientThenServerPreference), 'compress')
+    })
   })
 
   whenAcceptEncoding('*, gzip;q=0', function () {
@@ -206,6 +216,23 @@ describe('negotiator.encoding(array)', function () {
       assert.strictEqual(this.negotiator.encoding(['compress', 'identity']), 'identity')
     })
   })
+
+  whenAcceptEncoding('gzip;q=0.9, sdhc, br;q=0.9', function () {
+    it('should return best server-preferred encoding of equal client-preferred encodings', function () {
+      assert.strictEqual(this.negotiator.encoding(['compress', 'br', 'gzip']), 'gzip')
+      assert.strictEqual(this.negotiator.encoding(['compress', 'gzip', 'br']), 'gzip')
+    })
+
+    it('should return best server-preferred encoding of equal client-preferred encodings', function () {
+      assert.strictEqual(this.negotiator.encoding(['compress', 'br', 'gzip'], clientThenServerPreference), 'br')
+      assert.strictEqual(this.negotiator.encoding(['compress', 'gzip', 'br'], clientThenServerPreference), 'gzip')
+    })
+
+    it('should return best server-preferred encoding of equal client-preferred encodings', function () {
+      assert.strictEqual(this.negotiator.encoding(['compress', 'br', 'gzip'], serverPreference), 'br')
+      assert.strictEqual(this.negotiator.encoding(['compress', 'gzip', 'br'], serverPreference), 'gzip')
+    })
+  })
 })
 
 describe('negotiator.encodings()', function () {
@@ -316,7 +343,13 @@ describe('negotiator.encodings(array)', function () {
     it('should prefer gzip', function () {
       assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['identity']), ['identity'])
       assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['gzip']), ['gzip'])
-      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['compress', 'gzip']), ['gzip', 'compress'])
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['compress', 'deflate', 'gzip']), ['gzip', 'compress', 'deflate'])
+    })
+
+    it('clientThenServerPreference: should return server preferred encodings', function () {
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['identity'], clientThenServerPreference), ['identity'])
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['gzip'], clientThenServerPreference), ['gzip'])
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['compress', 'deflate', 'gzip'], clientThenServerPreference), ['compress', 'deflate', 'gzip'])
     })
   })
 
@@ -403,6 +436,11 @@ describe('negotiator.encodings(array)', function () {
       assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['deflate']), ['deflate'])
       assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['deflate', 'gzip']), ['deflate', 'gzip'])
     })
+
+    it('serverPreference: should ignore client quality levels', function () {
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['deflate', 'gzip'], serverPreference), ['deflate', 'gzip'])
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['gzip', 'deflate'], serverPreference), ['gzip', 'deflate'])
+    })
   })
 
   whenAcceptEncoding('gzip;q=0.8, identity;q=0.5, *;q=0.3', function () {
@@ -411,6 +449,87 @@ describe('negotiator.encodings(array)', function () {
       assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['identity', 'gzip', 'compress']), ['gzip', 'identity', 'compress'])
     })
   })
+
+  whenAcceptEncoding('not;q=0, med1;q=0.9, med2;q=0.9, high, *;q=0.8', function () {
+    it('clientPreference', function () {
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['high', 'not', 'med2', 'other', 'med1'], clientPreference), ['high', 'med1', 'med2', 'other'])
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['high', 'not', 'med1', 'other', 'med2'], clientPreference), ['high', 'med1', 'med2', 'other'])
+    })
+
+    it('clientThenServerPreference', function () {
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['high', 'not', 'med2', 'other', 'med1'], clientThenServerPreference), ['high', 'med2', 'med1', 'other'])
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['high', 'not', 'med1', 'other', 'med2'], clientThenServerPreference), ['high', 'med1', 'med2', 'other'])
+    })
+
+    it('serverPreference', function () {
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['high', 'not', 'med2', 'other', 'med1'], serverPreference), ['high', 'med2', 'other', 'med1'])
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['high', 'not', 'med1', 'other', 'med2'], serverPreference), ['high', 'med1', 'other', 'med2'])
+    })
+  })
+
+  whenAcceptEncoding('not;q=0, med1;q=0.9, med2;q=0.9, high, identity;q=0.9', function () {
+    it('clientPreference', function () {
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['high', 'not', 'med2', 'other', 'med1', 'identity'], clientPreference), ['high', 'med1', 'med2', 'identity'])
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['high', 'not', 'med1', 'other', 'med2', 'identity'], clientPreference), ['high', 'med1', 'med2', 'identity'])
+    })
+
+    it('clientThenServerPreference', function () {
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['high', 'not', 'med2', 'other', 'med1', 'identity'], clientThenServerPreference), ['high', 'med2', 'med1', 'identity'])
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['high', 'not', 'med1', 'other', 'med2', 'identity'], clientThenServerPreference), ['high', 'med1', 'med2', 'identity'])
+    })
+
+    it('serverPreference', function () {
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['high', 'not', 'med2', 'other', 'med1', 'identity'], serverPreference), ['high', 'med2', 'med1', 'identity'])
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['high', 'not', 'med1', 'other', 'med2', 'identity'], serverPreference), ['high', 'med1', 'med2', 'identity'])
+    })
+  })
+
+  whenAcceptEncoding('c;q=0.9, b;q=0.89, a;q=0.9, d;q=0.91, e;q=0.9', function () {
+    it('clientPreference', function () {
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['b','c','d','e'], clientPreference), ['d', 'c', 'e', 'b']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['c','d','e','b'], clientPreference), ['d', 'c', 'e', 'b']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['d','e','b','c'], clientPreference), ['d', 'c', 'e', 'b']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['e','b','c','d'], clientPreference), ['d', 'c', 'e', 'b']);
+
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['a','c','e'], clientPreference), ['c', 'a', 'e']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['c','e','a'], clientPreference), ['c', 'a', 'e']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['e','a','c'], clientPreference), ['c', 'a', 'e']);
+
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['identity','e','f'], clientPreference), ['e','identity']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['f','identity','e'], clientPreference), ['e','identity']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['e','f','identity'], clientPreference), ['e','identity']);
+    })
+
+    it('clientThenServerPreference', function () {
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['b','c','d','e'], clientThenServerPreference), ['d', 'c', 'e', 'b']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['c','d','e','b'], clientThenServerPreference), ['d', 'c', 'e', 'b']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['d','e','b','c'], clientThenServerPreference), ['d', 'e', 'c', 'b']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['e','b','c','d'], clientThenServerPreference), ['d', 'e', 'c', 'b']);
+
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['a','c','e'], clientThenServerPreference), ['a', 'c', 'e']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['c','e','a'], clientThenServerPreference), ['c', 'e', 'a']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['e','a','c'], clientThenServerPreference), ['e', 'a', 'c']);
+
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['identity','e','f'], clientThenServerPreference), ['e','identity']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['f','identity','e'], clientThenServerPreference), ['e','identity']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['e','f','identity'], clientThenServerPreference), ['e','identity']);
+    })
+
+    it('serverPreference', function () {
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['b','c','d','e'], serverPreference), ['b','c','d','e']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['c','d','e','b'], serverPreference), ['c','d','e','b']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['d','e','b','c'], serverPreference), ['d','e','b','c']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['e','b','c','d'], serverPreference), ['e','b','c','d']);
+
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['a','c','e'], serverPreference), ['a', 'c', 'e']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['c','e','a'], serverPreference), ['c', 'e', 'a']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['e','a','c'], serverPreference), ['e', 'a', 'c']);
+
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['identity','e','f'], serverPreference), ['identity', 'e']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['f','identity','e'], serverPreference), ['identity', 'e']);
+      assert.deepEqual(this.negotiator.encodings(['e','f','identity'], serverPreference), ['e','identity']);
+    })
+  })
 })
 
 function createRequest(headers) {