diff --git a/core/gather/gatherers/dobetterweb/response-compression.js b/core/gather/gatherers/dobetterweb/response-compression.js
index 1a9a58938fde..83b2d35f84a2 100644
--- a/core/gather/gatherers/dobetterweb/response-compression.js
+++ b/core/gather/gatherers/dobetterweb/response-compression.js
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ class ResponseCompression extends FRGatherer {
    * @param {LH.Artifacts.NetworkRequest[]} networkRecords
    * @return {Promise<LH.Artifacts['ResponseCompression']>}
    */
-  async _getArtifact(context, networkRecords) {
+  async getCompressibleRecords(context, networkRecords) {
     const session = context.driver.defaultSession;
     const textRecords = ResponseCompression.filterUnoptimizedResponses(networkRecords);
 
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ class ResponseCompression extends FRGatherer {
   async getArtifact(context) {
     const devtoolsLog = context.dependencies.DevtoolsLog;
     const networkRecords = await NetworkRecords.request(devtoolsLog, context);
-    return this._getArtifact(context, networkRecords);
+    return this.getCompressibleRecords(context, networkRecords);
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/core/test/gather/gatherers/dobetterweb/response-compression-test.js b/core/test/gather/gatherers/dobetterweb/response-compression-test.js
index 5d6dfd5908be..24bfb08b25aa 100644
--- a/core/test/gather/gatherers/dobetterweb/response-compression-test.js
+++ b/core/test/gather/gatherers/dobetterweb/response-compression-test.js
@@ -132,14 +132,14 @@ describe('Optimized responses', () => {
   });
 
   it('returns only text and non encoded responses', async () => {
-    const artifact = await gatherer._getArtifact(context, networkRecords);
+    const artifact = await gatherer.getCompressibleRecords(context, networkRecords);
     expect(artifact).toHaveLength(2);
     expect(artifact[0].url).toMatch(/index\.css$/);
     expect(artifact[1].url).toMatch(/index\.json$/);
   });
 
   it('computes sizes', async () => {
-    const artifact = await gatherer._getArtifact(context, networkRecords);
+    const artifact = await gatherer.getCompressibleRecords(context, networkRecords);
     expect(artifact).toHaveLength(2);
     expect(artifact[0].resourceSize).toEqual(6);
     expect(artifact[0].gzipSize).toEqual(26);
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ describe('Optimized responses', () => {
 
   it('recovers from driver errors', async () => {
     mocks.networkMock.fetchResponseBodyFromCache.mockRejectedValue(new Error('Failed'));
-    const artifact = await gatherer._getArtifact(context, networkRecords);
+    const artifact = await gatherer.getCompressibleRecords(context, networkRecords);
     expect(artifact).toHaveLength(2);
     expect(artifact[0].resourceSize).toEqual(6);
     expect(artifact[0].gzipSize).toBeUndefined();
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ describe('Optimized responses', () => {
       },
     ];
 
-    const artifact = await gatherer._getArtifact(context, networkRecords);
+    const artifact = await gatherer.getCompressibleRecords(context, networkRecords);
     expect(artifact).toHaveLength(1);
     expect(artifact[0].resourceSize).toEqual(123);
   });