diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 9885fb79..f61320bf 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ RUN apk upgrade --no-cache \
     tini \
     uwsgi \
     uwsgi-python3 \
+    brotli \
  && pip3 install --upgrade pip \
  && pip3 install --no-cache -r requirements.txt \
  && apk del build-dependencies
@@ -61,8 +62,10 @@ RUN su searx -c "/usr/bin/python3 -m compileall -q searx"; \
     touch -c --date=@${TIMESTAMP_UWSGI} dockerfiles/uwsgi.ini; \
     if [ ! -z $VERSION_GITCOMMIT ]; then\
       echo "VERSION_STRING = VERSION_STRING + \"-$VERSION_GITCOMMIT\"" >> /usr/local/searx/searx/version.py; \
-    fi
-
+    fi; \
+    find /usr/local/searx/searx/static -a \( -name '*.html' -o -name '*.css' -o -name '*.js' \
+    -o -name '*.svg' -o -name '*.ttf' -o -name '*.eot' \) \
+    -type f -exec gzip -9 -k {} \+ -exec brotli --best {} \+
 
 # Keep this argument at the end since it change each time
 ARG LABEL_DATE=
diff --git a/dockerfiles/uwsgi.ini b/dockerfiles/uwsgi.ini
index ecc4b394..398a440d 100644
--- a/dockerfiles/uwsgi.ini
+++ b/dockerfiles/uwsgi.ini
@@ -35,3 +35,10 @@ logto = /var/log/uwsgi/uwsgi.log
 # No keep alive
 # See https://github.com/searx/searx-docker/issues/24
 add-header = Connection: close
+
+# uwsgi serves the static files
+# expires set to one day as Flask does
+static-map = /static=/usr/local/searx/searx/static
+static-expires = /* 864000
+static-gzip-all = True
+offload-threads = %k