diff --git a/data/etc/apache2/conf-available/freedombox.conf b/data/etc/apache2/conf-available/freedombox.conf
index 2571ac736..f650cab65 100644
--- a/data/etc/apache2/conf-available/freedombox.conf
+++ b/data/etc/apache2/conf-available/freedombox.conf
@@ -21,3 +21,10 @@ RedirectMatch "^/freedombox" "/plinth"
         RewriteRule /favicon\.ico$ "/plinth/static/theme/img/favicon.ico" [PT]
     </IfModule>
 </Location>
+
+##
+## Serve SVG files compressed using gzip.
+##
+<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
+  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
+</IfModule>