diff --git a/support/nginx/peertube b/support/nginx/peertube
index 01506c7aa..1b698576f 100644
--- a/support/nginx/peertube
+++ b/support/nginx/peertube
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ server {
   # resolver $DNS-IP-1 $DNS-IP-2 valid=300s;
   # resolver_timeout 5s;
 
+  # Enable compression for JS/CSS/HTML and JSON, for improved client load times
+  gzip on;
+  gzip_types text/plain text/css text/html application/javascript application/json;
+  gzip_vary on;
+
   add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload";
 
   access_log /var/log/nginx/peertube.example.com.access.log;