diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/Utility/UrlHelper.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/Utility/UrlHelper.php
index 6bc65584cf7111024ca33518b618dc68af2705f0..356aa4a4a77dc4ca19830dc1c6f650d447863e75 100644
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/Utility/UrlHelper.php
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/Utility/UrlHelper.php
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ public static function buildQuery(array $query, $parent = '') {
    *   The data compressed into a URL-safe string.
    */
   public static function compressQueryParameter(string $data): string {
+    if (!\extension_loaded('zlib')) {
+      return $data;
+    }
     // Use 'base64url' encoding. Note that the '=' sign is only used for padding
     // on the right of the string, and is otherwise not part of the data.
     // @see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4648#section-5
@@ -100,6 +103,9 @@ public static function compressQueryParameter(string $data): string {
    *   The uncompressed data or FALSE on failure.
    */
   public static function uncompressQueryParameter(string $compressed): string|bool {
+    if (!\extension_loaded('zlib')) {
+      return $compressed;
+    }
     // Because this comes from user data, suppress the PHP warning that
     // gzcompress() throws if the base64-encoded string is invalid.
     return @gzuncompress(base64_decode(str_replace(['-', '_'], ['+', '/'], $compressed)));