diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 05354e3f..275ab153 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -2,9 +2,3 @@ FROM nginxinc/nginx-unprivileged:alpine
 
 COPY ./dist /app
 COPY config/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
-
-USER root
-
-RUN rm -rf /usr/share/nginx/html
-
-USER 101
diff --git a/config/nginx.conf b/config/nginx.conf
index ca4ac4c6..6950eb72 100644
--- a/config/nginx.conf
+++ b/config/nginx.conf
@@ -3,23 +3,16 @@ server {
     server_name  localhost;
 
     root   /app;
+    gzip_static on;
 
     location / {
-        # disable cache entriely by default (apart from Etag which is accurate enough)
-        add_header Cache-Control 'private no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate, max-age=0';
-        if_modified_since off;
-        expires off;
-        # also turn off last-modified since they are just the timestamps of the file in the docker image
-        # and may or may not bear any resemblance to when the resource changed
-        add_header Last-Modified "";
-
         try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
+        add_header Cache-Control "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate";
     }
 
     # assets can be cached because they have hashed filenames
     location /assets {
-        expires 1w;
-        add_header Cache-Control "public, no-transform";
+        add_header Cache-Control "public, immutable, max-age=31536000";
     }
 
     location /apple-app-site-association {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0515578e..6238571c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@
     "unique-names-generator": "^4.6.0",
     "vaul": "^1.0.0",
     "vite": "^5.0.0",
+    "vite-plugin-compression2": "^1.3.1",
     "vite-plugin-html-template": "^1.1.0",
     "vite-plugin-svgr": "^4.0.0",
     "vitest": "^2.0.0",
diff --git a/vite.config.js b/vite.config.js
index 6c714bcb..b8072577 100644
--- a/vite.config.js
+++ b/vite.config.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
 */
 
 import { defineConfig, loadEnv } from "vite";
+import { compression } from "vite-plugin-compression2";
 import svgrPlugin from "vite-plugin-svgr";
 import htmlTemplate from "vite-plugin-html-template";
 import { codecovVitePlugin } from "@codecov/vite-plugin";
@@ -38,6 +39,10 @@ export default defineConfig(({ mode }) => {
       bundleName: "element-call",
       uploadToken: process.env.CODECOV_TOKEN,
     }),
+
+    compression({
+      exclude: [/config.json/],
+    }),
   ];
 
   if (
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 42c6e6b0..4ad34928 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -2542,7 +2542,7 @@
     "@react-spring/shared" "~9.7.5"
     "@react-spring/types" "~9.7.5"
 
-"@rollup/pluginutils@^5.1.3":
+"@rollup/pluginutils@^5.1.0", "@rollup/pluginutils@^5.1.3":
   version "5.1.3"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@rollup/pluginutils/-/pluginutils-5.1.3.tgz#3001bf1a03f3ad24457591f2c259c8e514e0dbdf"
   integrity sha512-Pnsb6f32CD2W3uCaLZIzDmeFyQ2b8UWMFI7xtwUezpcGBDVDW6y9XgAWIlARiGAo6eNF5FK5aQTr0LFyNyqq5A==
@@ -7913,6 +7913,11 @@ tapable@^2.2.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/tapable/-/tapable-2.2.1.tgz#1967a73ef4060a82f12ab96af86d52fdb76eeca0"
   integrity sha512-GNzQvQTOIP6RyTfE2Qxb8ZVlNmw0n88vp1szwWRimP02mnTsx3Wtn5qRdqY9w2XduFNUgvOwhNnQsjwCp+kqaQ==
 
+tar-mini@^0.2.0:
+  version "0.2.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/tar-mini/-/tar-mini-0.2.0.tgz#2b2cdc215f5b83b0ab8ce363dc9ded22de51849b"
+  integrity sha512-+qfUHz700DWnRutdUsxRRVZ38G1Qr27OetwaMYTdg8hcPxf46U0S1Zf76dQMWRBmusOt2ZCK5kbIaiLkoGO7WQ==
+
 teex@^1.0.1:
   version "1.0.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/teex/-/teex-1.0.1.tgz#b8fa7245ef8e8effa8078281946c85ab780a0b12"
@@ -8416,6 +8421,16 @@ vite-node@2.1.4:
     pathe "^1.1.2"
     vite "^5.0.0"
 
+vite-plugin-compression2@^1.3.1:
+  version "1.3.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/vite-plugin-compression2/-/vite-plugin-compression2-1.3.1.tgz#ac2a512f8ca90a76687add6cf441000dd2c41485"
+  integrity sha512-UMr66CFu+RVPiD8E3iaX9BdZjCgO+lzzaAPAZvL5YgwH6FU4OR/MulJEyp9wq9EKoO6ErjUtPpaiDi3hvzv79Q==
+  dependencies:
+    "@rollup/pluginutils" "^5.1.0"
+    tar-mini "^0.2.0"
+  optionalDependencies:
+    vite "^5.3.4"
+
 vite-plugin-html-template@^1.1.0:
   version "1.2.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/vite-plugin-html-template/-/vite-plugin-html-template-1.2.2.tgz#d263c18dcf5f5e54bc74894546fd0ed993191f2f"
@@ -8432,7 +8447,7 @@ vite-plugin-svgr@^4.0.0:
     "@svgr/core" "^8.1.0"
     "@svgr/plugin-jsx" "^8.1.0"
 
-vite@^5.0.0:
+vite@^5.0.0, vite@^5.3.4:
   version "5.4.11"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/vite/-/vite-5.4.11.tgz#3b415cd4aed781a356c1de5a9ebafb837715f6e5"
   integrity sha512-c7jFQRklXua0mTzneGW9QVyxFjUgwcihC4bXEtujIo2ouWCe1Ajt/amn2PCxYnhYfd5k09JX3SB7OYWFKYqj8Q==