diff --git a/src/docs/markdown/caddyfile/directives/encode.md b/src/docs/markdown/caddyfile/directives/encode.md
index 30b9bd8..4f55273 100644
--- a/src/docs/markdown/caddyfile/directives/encode.md
+++ b/src/docs/markdown/caddyfile/directives/encode.md
@@ -12,13 +12,56 @@ Encodes responses using the configured encoding(s). A typical use for encoding i
 encode [<matcher>] <formats...> {
 	gzip [<level>]
 	zstd
+	minimum_length <length>
+	prefer <formats...>
+
+	# response matcher single line syntax
+	match [header <field> [<value>]] | [status <code...>]
+	# or response matcher block
+	match {
+		status <code...>
+		header <field> [<value>]
+	}
 }
 ```
 
 - **&lt;formats...&gt;** is the list of encoding formats to enable.
 - **gzip** enables Gzip compression, optionally at the specified level.
 - **zstd** enables Zstandard compression.
+- **minimum_length** the minimum number of bytes a response should have to be encoded. (Default is 512)
+- **prefer** is the ordered list of enabled encoding formats to determine, which encoding to choose if the client has no strong preference (via q-factors in the `Accept-Encoding` header).  
+  If **prefer** is not specified the first supported encoding from the `Accept-Encoding` header is used.
+- **match** is a [Response matcher](#responsematcher). Only matching Responses are encoded. The default looks like this:
 
+  ```caddy-d
+  match {
+      header Content-Type text/*
+      header Content-Type application/json*
+      header Content-Type application/javascript*
+      header Content-Type application/xhtml+xml*
+      header Content-Type application/atom+xml*
+      header Content-Type application/rss+xml*
+      header Content-Type image/svg+xml*
+  }
+  ```
+
+## Response matcher
+
+**Response matchers** can be used to filter (or classify) responses by specific criteria.
+
+### status
+
+```caddy-d
+status <code...>
+```
+
+By HTTP status code.
+
+- **&lt;code...&gt;** is a list of HTTP status codes. Special cases are `2xx`, `3xx`, ... which match against all status codes in the range of 200-299, 300-399, ... respectively
+
+### header
+
+See Request matcher [header](/docs/caddyfile/matchers#header).
 
 ## Examples
 
@@ -34,3 +77,12 @@ Enable Zstandard and Gzip compression:
 encode zstd gzip
 ```
 
+Enable Zstandard and Gzip compression and prefer Zstandard over Gzip:
+
+```caddy-d
+encode zstd gzip {
+	prefer zstd gzip
+}
+```
+
+Without the **prefer** setting, a `--compressed` HTTP request via [curl](https://curl.se/) (meaning `Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, br, zstd` in curl >=7.72.0) would be served with Gzip encoding, because it is the first accepted encoding that both client and server support. With the **prefer** setting Zstandard encoding is served, because the client has no preference but the server (caddy) has.