diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ca98c103..3f3ac9a8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,5 +7,6 @@ pub
 .ssh
 .vscode
 *.css.map
+*.br
 deployment-report.json
 build/
diff --git a/deploy.php b/deploy.php
index 413af046..4e8d6813 100644
--- a/deploy.php
+++ b/deploy.php
@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@
 
 namespace Hypernode\DeployConfiguration;
 
-use function Deployer\after;
-use function Deployer\run;
-use function Deployer\task;
-use function Deployer\test;
+use function Deployer\{run, task, test, within, set};
 
 $DOCKER_HOST = '172.17.0.2';
 $DOCKER_WEBROOT = sprintf('/data/web/apps/%s/current/pub', $DOCKER_HOST);
@@ -74,12 +71,29 @@
     run('cp {{release_path}}/etc/nginx/server.redirects.conf /data/web/nginx/server.redirects.conf');
 });
 
+// This will pre-compress files using brotli compression so we can serve them directly from nginx
+// without needing to compress them on-the-fly.
+task('build:compress:brotli', function () {
+    set('brotli_compression_level', 11);
+
+    run('apt update && apt install brotli -y');
+    within('{{release_or_current_path}}/docs/_build/html', function () {
+        run('find . -name "*.html" -type f -exec brotli -f -q {{brotli_compression_level}} {} \\;');
+        run('find . -name "*.css" -type f -exec brotli -f -q {{brotli_compression_level}} {} \\;');
+        run('find . -name "*.js" -type f -exec brotli -f -q {{brotli_compression_level}} {} \\;');
+        run('find . -name "*.svg" -type f -exec brotli -f -q {{brotli_compression_level}} {} \\;');
+        run('find . -name "*.png" -type f -exec brotli -f -q {{brotli_compression_level}} {} \\;');
+        run('find . -name "*.jpg" -type f -exec brotli -f -q {{brotli_compression_level}} {} \\;');
+    });
+});
+
 $configuration = new Configuration();
 $configuration->addBuildTask('node:build:scss');
 $configuration->addBuildTask('python:venv:create');
 $configuration->addBuildTask('python:venv:requirements');
 $configuration->addBuildTask('python:build_documentation');
 $configuration->addBuildTask('python:generate_redirects');
+$configuration->addBuildTask('build:compress:brotli');
 $configuration->addDeployTask('deploy:disable_public');
 $configuration->addDeployTask('deploy:hmv_docker');
 $configuration->addDeployTask('deploy:docs_vhost:acceptance');