diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index aa9709d..866d36f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -26,12 +26,43 @@ dependencies = [
  "memchr",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "alloc-no-stdlib"
+version = "2.0.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "cc7bb162ec39d46ab1ca8c77bf72e890535becd1751bb45f64c597edb4c8c6b3"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "alloc-stdlib"
+version = "0.2.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "94fb8275041c72129eb51b7d0322c29b8387a0386127718b096429201a5d6ece"
+dependencies = [
+ "alloc-no-stdlib",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "anyhow"
 version = "1.0.86"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b3d1d046238990b9cf5bcde22a3fb3584ee5cf65fb2765f454ed428c7a0063da"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "async-compression"
+version = "0.4.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "cd066d0b4ef8ecb03a55319dc13aa6910616d0f44008a045bb1835af830abff5"
+dependencies = [
+ "brotli",
+ "flate2",
+ "futures-core",
+ "memchr",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tokio",
+ "zstd",
+ "zstd-safe",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "async-recursion"
 version = "1.1.1"
@@ -190,6 +221,27 @@ dependencies = [
  "generic-array",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "brotli"
+version = "6.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "74f7971dbd9326d58187408ab83117d8ac1bb9c17b085fdacd1cf2f598719b6b"
+dependencies = [
+ "alloc-no-stdlib",
+ "alloc-stdlib",
+ "brotli-decompressor",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "brotli-decompressor"
+version = "4.0.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9a45bd2e4095a8b518033b128020dd4a55aab1c0a381ba4404a472630f4bc362"
+dependencies = [
+ "alloc-no-stdlib",
+ "alloc-stdlib",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bumpalo"
 version = "3.16.0"
@@ -220,6 +272,8 @@ version = "1.1.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5fb8dd288a69fc53a1996d7ecfbf4a20d59065bff137ce7e56bbd620de191189"
 dependencies = [
+ "jobserver",
+ "libc",
  "shlex",
 ]
 
@@ -373,6 +427,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "crc32fast"
+version = "1.4.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a97769d94ddab943e4510d138150169a2758b5ef3eb191a9ee688de3e23ef7b3"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "crunchy"
 version = "0.2.2"
@@ -514,6 +577,16 @@ version = "1.0.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5443807d6dff69373d433ab9ef5378ad8df50ca6298caf15de6e52e24aaf54d5"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "flate2"
+version = "1.0.31"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7f211bbe8e69bbd0cfdea405084f128ae8b4aaa6b0b522fc8f2b009084797920"
+dependencies = [
+ "crc32fast",
+ "miniz_oxide",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "fnv"
 version = "1.0.7"
@@ -863,6 +936,15 @@ version = "1.0.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "49f1f14873335454500d59611f1cf4a4b0f786f9ac11f4312a78e4cf2566695b"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "jobserver"
+version = "0.1.32"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "48d1dbcbbeb6a7fec7e059840aa538bd62aaccf972c7346c4d9d2059312853d0"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "js-sys"
 version = "0.3.70"
@@ -1365,6 +1447,12 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8b870d8c151b6f2fb93e84a13146138f05d02ed11c7e7c54f8826aaaf7c9f184"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pkg-config"
+version = "0.3.30"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d231b230927b5e4ad203db57bbcbee2802f6bce620b1e4a9024a07d94e2907ec"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "powerfmt"
 version = "0.2.0"
@@ -2132,8 +2220,10 @@ version = "0.5.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "1e9cd434a998747dd2c4276bc96ee2e0c7a2eadf3cae88e52be55a05fa9053f5"
 dependencies = [
+ "async-compression",
  "bitflags",
  "bytes",
+ "futures-core",
  "futures-util",
  "http",
  "http-body",
@@ -2662,3 +2752,31 @@ dependencies = [
  "quote",
  "syn",
 ]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zstd"
+version = "0.13.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fcf2b778a664581e31e389454a7072dab1647606d44f7feea22cd5abb9c9f3f9"
+dependencies = [
+ "zstd-safe",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zstd-safe"
+version = "7.2.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "54a3ab4db68cea366acc5c897c7b4d4d1b8994a9cd6e6f841f8964566a419059"
+dependencies = [
+ "zstd-sys",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zstd-sys"
+version = "2.0.13+zstd.1.5.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "38ff0f21cfee8f97d94cef41359e0c89aa6113028ab0291aa8ca0038995a95aa"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "pkg-config",
+]
diff --git a/server/Cargo.toml b/server/Cargo.toml
index 36b4d83..7edef48 100644
--- a/server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/server/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
 tower = { version = "0.5", features = ["util"] }
-tower-http = { version = "0.5", features = ["fs", "trace"] }
+tower-http = { version = "0.5", features = ["fs", "trace", "compression-full"] }
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
 uuid = { version = "1.10", features = ["v7", "serde", "fast-rng"] }
diff --git a/server/src/main.rs b/server/src/main.rs
index 598a682..ef516df 100644
--- a/server/src/main.rs
+++ b/server/src/main.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ use std::{
     sync::{Arc, RwLock},
 };
 use tokio::sync::{broadcast, mpsc};
-use tower_http::services::ServeDir;
+use tower::ServiceBuilder;
+use tower_http::{compression::CompressionLayer, services::ServeDir};
 use tracing_subscriber::{layer::SubscriberExt, util::SubscriberInitExt};
 use user_handler::UserHandler;
 use uuid::Uuid;
@@ -86,6 +87,7 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
     let app = Router::new()
         .route("/websocket", get(websocket_connection_handler))
         .nest_service("/", ServeDir::new("dist"))
+        .layer(ServiceBuilder::new().layer(CompressionLayer::new()))
         .with_state(app_state);
 
     // send it