diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 7cc0d7e..18150f2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter", "json", "fmt"] }
 tower = "0.4"
 tower-cookies = "0.10"
-tower-http = { version = "0.6", features = ["limit", "set-header", "trace"] }
+tower-http = { version = "0.6", features = ["compression-gzip", "limit", "set-header", "trace"] }
 slug = "0.1.6"
 url = "2"
 uuid = { version = "1", features = ["v4"] }
diff --git a/src/application/routes/app/mod.rs b/src/application/routes/app/mod.rs
index 19d7e84..c6043f6 100644
--- a/src/application/routes/app/mod.rs
+++ b/src/application/routes/app/mod.rs
@@ -43,49 +43,70 @@ async fn scan_redirect() -> Redirect {
 
 async fn styles() -> impl IntoResponse {
     (
-        [("content-type", "text/css; charset=utf-8")],
+        [
+            ("content-type", "text/css; charset=utf-8"),
+            ("cache-control", "public, max-age=604800"),
+        ],
         include_str!("../../../../static/css/styles.css"),
     )
 }
 
 async fn webauthn_js() -> impl IntoResponse {
     (
-        [("content-type", "application/javascript; charset=utf-8")],
+        [
+            ("content-type", "application/javascript; charset=utf-8"),
+            ("cache-control", "public, max-age=604800"),
+        ],
         include_str!("../../../../static/js/webauthn.js"),
     )
 }
 
 async fn photo_capture_js() -> impl IntoResponse {
     (
-        [("content-type", "application/javascript; charset=utf-8")],
+        [
+            ("content-type", "application/javascript; charset=utf-8"),
+            ("cache-control", "public, max-age=604800"),
+        ],
         include_str!("../../../../static/js/components/photo-capture.js"),
     )
 }
 
 async fn searchable_select_js() -> impl IntoResponse {
     (
-        [("content-type", "application/javascript; charset=utf-8")],
+        [
+            ("content-type", "application/javascript; charset=utf-8"),
+            ("cache-control", "public, max-age=604800"),
+        ],
         include_str!("../../../../static/js/components/searchable-select.js"),
     )
 }
 
 async fn favicon() -> impl IntoResponse {
     (
-        [("content-type", "image/x-icon")],
+        [
+            ("content-type", "image/x-icon"),
+            ("cache-control", "public, max-age=604800"),
+        ],
         include_bytes!("../../../../static/favicon.ico").as_ref(),
     )
 }
 
 async fn favicon_light() -> impl IntoResponse {
     (
-        [("content-type", "image/svg+xml")],
+        [
+            ("content-type", "image/svg+xml"),
+            ("cache-control", "public, max-age=604800"),
+        ],
         include_str!("../../../../static/favicon-light.svg"),
     )
 }
 
 async fn favicon_dark() -> impl IntoResponse {
     (
-        [("content-type", "image/svg+xml")],
+        [
+            ("content-type", "image/svg+xml"),
+            ("cache-control", "public, max-age=604800"),
+        ],
         include_str!("../../../../static/favicon-dark.svg"),
     )
 }
diff --git a/src/application/routes/mod.rs b/src/application/routes/mod.rs
index e13fa18..2f487c1 100644
--- a/src/application/routes/mod.rs
+++ b/src/application/routes/mod.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use axum::http::{HeaderValue, StatusCode};
 use axum::response::Html;
 use tower::ServiceBuilder;
 use tower_cookies::CookieManagerLayer;
+use tower_http::compression::CompressionLayer;
 use tower_http::limit::RequestBodyLimitLayer;
 use tower_http::set_header::SetResponseHeaderLayer;
 use tower_http::trace::{DefaultMakeSpan, DefaultOnResponse, TraceLayer};
@@ -62,7 +63,8 @@ pub fn app_router(state: AppState) -> axum::Router {
                 .layer(SetResponseHeaderLayer::overriding(
                     axum::http::header::STRICT_TRANSPORT_SECURITY,
                     HeaderValue::from_static("max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains"),
-                )),
+                ))
+                .layer(CompressionLayer::new().gzip(true)),
         )
         .with_state(state)
 }