curl - Get HTTP response body content from site for parsing with PHP

I know there are lots of articles on how to get response with Curl and then decode it but non of them worked. Sending request with CURL. Getting response. Dumping response content on the screen shows only "String(996)". I guess its compressed string. Tried to decompress it but didnt work. Here is my case if someone can help me with that.
I tried this code with different url and it worked.

<?php
//set up variables
$url = 'https://en.bidfax.info';
$response = get_web_page($url);
var_dump ($response);

function get_web_page($url) {
$options = array(
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,     // return web page
  CURLOPT_HEADER         => false,    // don't return headers
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,     // follow redirects
  CURLOPT_ENCODING       => "",       // handle all encodings
  CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER    => true,     // set referer on redirect
  CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120,      // timeout on connect
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 120,      // timeout on response
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS      => 10,       // stop after 10 redirects
  CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false     // Disabled SSL Cert checks
  );

  $ch = curl_init($url);
  curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
  $content = curl_exec($ch);

  curl_close($ch);
  return $content;

}
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