diff --git a/benchmark.js b/benchmark.js
index a812844..6a496e9 100644
--- a/benchmark.js
+++ b/benchmark.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { createReadStream, createWriteStream, promises as fs } from 'fs'
+import { snappyUncompressor } from 'hysnappy'
 import { parquetRead } from './src/hyparquet.js'
 
 const url = 'https://huggingface.co/datasets/wikimedia/wikipedia/resolve/main/20231101.en/train-00000-of-00041.parquet'
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ if (!stat) {
   console.log('downloaded example.parquet')
   stat = await fs.stat('example.parquet').catch(() => undefined)
 }
+
 // asyncBuffer
 const file = {
   byteLength: stat.size,
@@ -30,8 +32,12 @@ const file = {
 }
 const startTime = performance.now()
 console.log('parsing wikipedia data...')
+
 // read parquet file
-await parquetRead({ file })
+await parquetRead({
+  file,
+  compressors: { SNAPPY: snappyUncompressor() }, // hysnappy wasm
+})
 const ms = performance.now() - startTime
 console.log(`parsed ${stat.size.toLocaleString()} bytes in ${ms.toFixed(0)} ms`)
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b18036b..fc106dc 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
     "eslint-plugin-import": "2.29.1",
     "eslint-plugin-jsdoc": "48.2.0",
     "http-server": "14.1.1",
+    "hysnappy": "0.2.0",
     "typescript": "5.3.3",
     "vitest": "1.3.1"
   }
diff --git a/src/datapage.js b/src/datapage.js
index 9254983..84433d8 100644
--- a/src/datapage.js
+++ b/src/datapage.js
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import { ParquetType } from './constants.js'
 import { readData, readPlain, readRleBitPackedHybrid, widthFromMaxInt } from './encoding.js'
 import {
   getMaxDefinitionLevel,