diff --git a/templates/logs.vhost.erb b/templates/logs.vhost.erb
index c93ea18..843ca8f 100644
--- a/templates/logs.vhost.erb
+++ b/templates/logs.vhost.erb
@@ -21,13 +21,27 @@ NameVirtualHost <%= @vhost_name %>:<%= @port %>
   # use Apache to compress the results afterwards, to save on the wire
   # it's approx 18x savings of wire traffic to compress. We need to
   # compress by content types that htmlify can produce
-  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain text/html
+  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain text/html application/x-font-ttf
 
   <FilesMatch \.html\.gz$>
     ForceType text/html
     AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
     AddEncoding x-gzip gz
   </FilesMatch>
+  <FilesMatch \.css\.gz$>
+    ForceType text/css
+    AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
+    AddEncoding x-gzip gz
+  </FilesMatch>
+  <FilesMatch \.js\.gz$>
+    ForceType text/javascript
+    AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
+    AddEncoding x-gzip gz
+  </FilesMatch>
+  <FilesMatch \.ttf\.gz$>
+    ForceType application/x-font-ttf
+    AddEncoding x-gzip gz
+  </FilesMatch>
   <FilesMatch \.css$>
     # mod_mime_magic is sometimes passing css files as asm sources
     # e.g css files generated by coverage reports
@@ -63,6 +77,12 @@ NameVirtualHost <%= @vhost_name %>:<%= @port %>
   </Directory>
 
   RewriteEngine On
+  # If the specified file does not exist, look if there is a gzipped version
+  # If there is, serve that one instead
+  RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+  RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME}.gz -f
+  RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ %{REQUEST_URI}.gz
+
   # rewrite txt.gz & console.html[.gz] files to map to our internal htmlify
   # wsgi app
   # PT, Pass-through:  to come back around and get picked up by the