diff --git a/ci/srht/update_download_page b/ci/srht/update_download_page
index 5c007b6986..5277da7d2b 100755
--- a/ci/srht/update_download_page
+++ b/ci/srht/update_download_page
@@ -103,11 +103,19 @@ cd "$HOME"
 
 # Upload new stdlib autodocs 
 mkdir -p docs_to_upload/documentation/master/std/
-cp "$ZIGDIR/docs/std/index.html" docs_to_upload/documentation/master/std/index.html
-cp "$ZIGDIR/docs/std/data.js" docs_to_upload/documentation/master/std/data.js
-cp "$ZIGDIR/docs/std/main.js" docs_to_upload/documentation/master/std/main.js
-cp "$LANGREF" docs_to_upload/documentation/master/index.html
-$S3CMD put -P --no-mime-magic --recursive --add-header="Cache-Control: max-age=0, must-revalidate" "docs_to_upload/" s3://ziglang.org/
+
+gzip -c -9 "$ZIGDIR/docs/std/index.html" >  docs_to_upload/documentation/master/std/index.html
+gzip -c -9 "$ZIGDIR/docs/std/data.js" > docs_to_upload/documentation/master/std/data.js
+gzip -c -9 "$ZIGDIR/docs/std/main.js" > docs_to_upload/documentation/master/std/main.js
+gzip -c -9 "$LANGREF" > docs_to_upload/documentation/master/index.html
+$S3CMD put -P --no-mime-magic --recursive --add-header="Content-Encoding:gzip" --add-header="Cache-Control: max-age=0, must-revalidate" "docs_to_upload/" s3://ziglang.org/
+
+## Copy without compression:
+# cp "$ZIGDIR/docs/std/index.html" docs_to_upload/documentation/master/std/index.html
+# cp "$ZIGDIR/docs/std/data.js" docs_to_upload/documentation/master/std/data.js
+# cp "$ZIGDIR/docs/std/main.js" docs_to_upload/documentation/master/std/main.js
+# cp "$LANGREF" docs_to_upload/documentation/master/index.html
+# $S3CMD put -P --no-mime-magic --recursive --add-header="Cache-Control: max-age=0, must-revalidate" "docs_to_upload/" s3://ziglang.org/
 
 git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:ziglang/www.ziglang.org.git
 cd www.ziglang.org