diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0d00270..4ff01c3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -41,11 +41,23 @@
             <version>2.9</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+            <groupId>commons-io</groupId> <!-- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32184114 -->
             <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
             <version>2.18.0</version>
         </dependency>
 
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
+            <version>1.27.1</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.github.luben</groupId>
+            <artifactId>zstd-jni</artifactId>
+            <version>1.5.6-10</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/m724/blog/BlogBuilder.java b/src/main/java/eu/m724/blog/BlogBuilder.java
index 74510d8..143a4e3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/m724/blog/BlogBuilder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/m724/blog/BlogBuilder.java
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 package eu.m724.blog;
 
+import eu.m724.blog.compress.FileCompressor;
 import eu.m724.blog.data.Feed;
 import eu.m724.blog.data.Post;
 import eu.m724.blog.data.Site;
 import eu.m724.blog.template.TemplateRenderer;
+import org.apache.commons.compress.compressors.CompressorException;
+import org.apache.commons.compress.compressors.CompressorStreamFactory;
 import org.apache.commons.io.file.PathUtils;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.api.Git;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.RepositoryBuilder;
@@ -14,6 +17,8 @@ import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Comparator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 /**
@@ -115,17 +120,35 @@ public class BlogBuilder {
      * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
      */
     public void build() throws IOException {
+        System.out.println("Loading site...");
         if (site == null)
             this.site = Site.fromConfig(workingDirectory.resolve("site-config.yml"));
 
         if (template == null)
             this.template = new TemplateRenderer(templateDirectory);
 
-        copyIfExists(workingDirectory.resolve("assets"), outputDirectory.resolve("assets"));
-        copyIfExists(templateDirectory.resolve("static"), outputDirectory.resolve("static"));
+        System.out.println("Copying assets...");
+        copyTree(workingDirectory.resolve("assets"), outputDirectory.resolve("assets"));
+        copyTree(templateDirectory.resolve("static"), outputDirectory.resolve("static"));
 
+        System.out.println("Rendering posts...");
+        var posts = renderPosts();
+
+        System.out.println("Rendering meta...");
+        posts.sort(Comparator.comparing(Post::createdAt).reversed());
+        Files.writeString(outputDirectory.resolve("index.html"), template.renderIndex(site, posts));
+
+        Files.writeString(outputDirectory.resolve("posts.rss"), Feed.generateRss(site, posts));
+
+
+        System.out.println("Compressing...");
+        compressOutput();
+    }
+
+    private List<Post> renderPosts() throws IOException {
         Files.createDirectory(outputDirectory.resolve("post"));
         var postDirectory = workingDirectory.resolve("posts");
+
         var posts = new ArrayList<Post>();
 
         try (var stream = Files.walk(postDirectory)) {
@@ -158,20 +181,35 @@ public class BlogBuilder {
             }
         }
 
-        posts.sort(Comparator.comparing(Post::createdAt).reversed());
-        Files.writeString(outputDirectory.resolve("index.html"), template.renderIndex(site, posts));
+        return posts;
+    }
 
-        Files.writeString(outputDirectory.resolve("posts.rss"), Feed.generateRss(site, posts));
+    private void compressOutput() throws IOException {
+        var compressors = new FileCompressor[] {
+                new FileCompressor(CompressorStreamFactory.GZIP),
+                new FileCompressor(CompressorStreamFactory.ZSTANDARD)
+        };
+
+        Set<Path> tree;
+        try (var walk = Files.walk(outputDirectory)) {
+            tree = walk.filter(Files::isRegularFile).collect(Collectors.toSet());
+        }
+
+        for (var compressor : compressors) {
+            for (var path : tree) {
+                try {
+                    compressor.compress(path);
+                } catch (CompressorException e) {
+                    System.err.printf("Exception compressing %s to %s: %s%n", path, compressor.getAlgorithm(), e.getMessage());
+                }
+            }
+        }
     }
 
 
     /* Internal functions */
 
-    private boolean copyTree(Path srcDir, Path destDir) throws IOException {
-        if (!Files.isDirectory(srcDir)) {
-            return false;
-        }
-
+    private void copyTree(Path srcDir, Path destDir) throws IOException {
         try (var walk = Files.walk(srcDir)) {
             for (var src : walk.collect(Collectors.toSet())) {
                 var rel = srcDir.relativize(src);
@@ -188,17 +226,5 @@ public class BlogBuilder {
                 }
             }
         }
-
-        return true;
-    }
-
-    private void copyIfExists(Path srcDir, Path destDir) throws IOException {
-        System.out.print(srcDir);
-
-        if (copyTree(srcDir, destDir)) {
-            System.out.println(" copied");
-        } else {
-            System.out.println(" doesn't exist, not copying");
-        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/m724/blog/Main.java b/src/main/java/eu/m724/blog/Main.java
index a5b1ed1..6ae747d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/m724/blog/Main.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/m724/blog/Main.java
@@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ public class Main {
                 .renderDrafts(renderDrafts);
 
         builder.mkdirs(force);
+
+        System.out.println("---- START BUILD ----");
         builder.build();
+        System.out.println("----- END BUILD -----");
 
         var end = System.nanoTime();
         System.out.printf("Exported to %s (%.2f ms)\n", outputDirectory, (end - start) / 1000000.0);
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/m724/blog/compress/FileCompressor.java b/src/main/java/eu/m724/blog/compress/FileCompressor.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b1ec3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/m724/blog/compress/FileCompressor.java
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+package eu.m724.blog.compress;
+
+import org.apache.commons.compress.compressors.CompressorException;
+import org.apache.commons.compress.compressors.CompressorStreamFactory;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.*;
+
+public class FileCompressor {
+    private final String algorithm;
+
+    public FileCompressor(String algorithm) {
+        this.algorithm = algorithm;
+    }
+
+    public void compress(Path source) throws IOException, CompressorException {
+        var destination = source.resolveSibling(source.getFileName() + "." + algorithm);
+        compress(source, destination);
+    }
+
+    public void compress(Path source, Path destination) throws IOException, CompressorException {
+        if (Files.exists(destination))
+            throw new FileAlreadyExistsException(destination.toString());
+        
+        try (
+                var outputStream = new CompressorStreamFactory()
+                        .createCompressorOutputStream(algorithm, Files.newOutputStream(destination))
+        ) {
+            Files.copy(source, outputStream);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public String getAlgorithm() {
+        return algorithm;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/m724/blog/template/TemplateRenderer.java b/src/main/java/eu/m724/blog/template/TemplateRenderer.java
index ce52b8c..cf9fe15 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/m724/blog/template/TemplateRenderer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/m724/blog/template/TemplateRenderer.java
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import io.pebbletemplates.pebble.template.PebbleTemplate;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 
 /**
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ public class TemplateRenderer {
      * @return the rendered index HTML page as a string
      * @throws IOException if an error occurs during the template evaluation
      */
-    public String renderIndex(Site site, ArrayList<Post> posts) throws IOException {
+    public String renderIndex(Site site, List<Post> posts) throws IOException {
         Map<String, Object> context = Map.of(
                 "site", site,
                 "articles", posts