The invention discloses a method and a system for compressing a display image, which belong to the technical field of image compression. The method comprises steps: S1, a plurality of coding units whose number is matched with that of pixel pages are provided to carry out coding compression processing on the multiple pixel pages respectively; S2, in each coding unit, the coding information is transmitted to a code rate allocation unit in real time; S3, the code rate allocation unit adopts a preset strategy to calculate the current target code rate of each pixel page in real time, and the current target code rate is sent to the plurality of coding units; S4, the plurality of coding units use the current target code rate respectively to carry out coding compression processing on the multiple pixel pages, whether the coding compression processing is over is judged, if not, the step 2 is returned, and if yes, exiting is carried out. The system comprises a dividing unit, the coding units and the code rate allocation unit. The above technical scheme has the beneficial effects that the problem that the image compression quality is not uniform is solved, and the overall compression quality of the display image is enhanced.