diff --git a/Caddyfile b/Caddyfile
index 428e77a..acd7b0f 100644
--- a/Caddyfile
+++ b/Caddyfile
@@ -1,5 +1,28 @@
 :3000 {
     root * /usr/share/caddy
-    file_server
+
+    # Compress text responses only. woff2/png and other binaries are already
+    # compressed, so they're excluded — re-compressing them burns CPU for ~0%.
+    encode {
+        zstd
+        gzip
+        match {
+            header Content-Type text/*
+            header Content-Type application/javascript*
+            header Content-Type application/json*
+            header Content-Type image/svg+xml*
+        }
+    }
+
+    # Vite emits all build output under /assets/ with content-hashed filenames,
+    # so those bytes never change for a given URL — cache them indefinitely.
+    @assets path /assets/*
+    header @assets Cache-Control "public, max-age=31536000, immutable"
+
+    # The HTML shell is the un-hashed entry point; it must revalidate so a new
+    # deploy is served immediately rather than from a stale cache.
+    header /index.html Cache-Control "no-cache"
+
     try_files {path} /index.html
+    file_server
 }