diff --git a/Services/Website/Dockerfile b/Services/Website/Dockerfile
index b2ed87f..6f3f1d4 100644
--- a/Services/Website/Dockerfile
+++ b/Services/Website/Dockerfile
@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
+# ================================
+# Asset image
+# ================================
+FROM node:22-alpine AS assets
+
+# Install the minifiers in their own layer, so they are cached across asset changes
+RUN apk add --no-cache oxipng \
+    && npm install --global esbuild svgo
+
+# Copy the static files and minify the JS/CSS/SVG sources and losslessly recompress
+# the PNG images in place, keeping their names so the URL paths derived from the
+# StaticFile enumeration stay unchanged.
+WORKDIR /static
+COPY ./Services/Website/Resources/Static .
+RUN esbuild --minify --allow-overwrite --outdir=css css/*.css \
+    && esbuild --minify --allow-overwrite --outdir=js js/*.js \
+    && oxipng --opt max --strip safe *.png \
+    && svgo icon.svg
+
+# Export stage: `docker build --target assets-export --output <dir>` writes the
+# minified static files to <dir> for local inspection.
+FROM scratch AS assets-export
+COPY --from=assets /static /
+
 # ================================
 # Build image
 # ================================
@@ -45,8 +69,13 @@ RUN cp "/usr/libexec/swift/linux/swift-backtrace-static" ./
 RUN find -L "$(swift build --package-path /build/Services/Website -c release --show-bin-path)/" -regex '.*\.resources$' -exec cp -Ra {} ./ \;
 
 # Copy the static files directory (served by FileMiddleware) if it exists
+RUN [ -d /build/Services/Website/Resources ] && mv /build/Services/Website/Resources ./Resources || true
+
+# Overwrite the static files with the minified copies from the assets stage
+COPY --from=assets /static ./Resources/Static
+
 # Ensure that by default, neither the directory nor any of its contents are writable.
-RUN [ -d /build/Services/Website/Resources ] && { mv /build/Services/Website/Resources ./Resources && chmod -R a-w ./Resources; } || true
+RUN chmod -R a-w ./Resources
 
 # ================================
 # Run image
diff --git a/Services/Website/Makefile b/Services/Website/Makefile
index 47d91c8..2ed486e 100644
--- a/Services/Website/Makefile
+++ b/Services/Website/Makefile
@@ -105,6 +105,17 @@ db-reset: ## Stop and remove the local database instance and delete its data vol
 		--profile database down mariadb \
 		--volumes
 
+# --- Assets minification ------------------------------------------------------
+
+.PHONY: ast-minify
+ast-minify: ## Preview the minified JS/CSS assets in .build/minified
+	@docker build \
+		--target assets-export \
+		--output .build/minified \
+		--file Dockerfile \
+		../..
+	@echo "Minified assets written to .build/minified"
+
 # --- Registry deployment ------------------------------------------------------
 
 .PHONY: img-check
diff --git a/Services/Website/README.md b/Services/Website/README.md
index 27d7fa6..5f85d3a 100644
--- a/Services/Website/README.md
+++ b/Services/Website/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The service:
 - Serves the landing page at `GET /` (rendered once per supported language with [Elementary](https://github.com/elementary-swift/elementary) and cached).
 - Negotiates each request's language from its `Accept-Language` header against the languages in the `WebsiteLibrary` String Catalog, falling back to the default (`en`); pages are served from the per-language cache with `Content-Language` and `Vary: Accept-Language` headers.
 - Answers a liveness check at `GET /health` with a static JSON payload, and a readiness check at `GET /health/ready` that reports whether the database is reachable (`200` ready / `503` unavailable).
-- Serves static files (CSS, JS, icons, manifest, `robots.txt`) from `Resources/Static` via Hummingbird's `FileMiddleware`, tagged with media-type-specific `Cache-Control`.
+- Serves static files (CSS, JS, icons, manifest, `robots.txt`) from `Resources/Static` via Hummingbird's `FileMiddleware`, tagged with media-type-specific `Cache-Control`; the production image ships minified copies (see [Static assets](#static-assets)).
 - Returns a custom HTML 404 page, localized like the landing page, for any request that matches neither a route nor a static file.
 - Compresses responses (gzip/deflate) above a configurable size when the client advertises support.
 - Stamps a hardened set of security headers on every response.
@@ -200,6 +200,19 @@ docker compose -f docker-compose.yml pull
 docker compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d
 ```
 
+### Static assets
+The image build optimizes the files under `Resources/Static` in its `assets` stage, in place:
+- CSS and JS are minified with [esbuild](https://esbuild.github.io).
+- PNG images are losslessly recompressed with [oxipng](https://github.com/oxipng/oxipng) — the output is pixel-identical, only encoded smaller.
+- The SVG icon is minified with [svgo](https://github.com/svg/svgo).
+
+Files keep their names and paths, so the URLs derived from the `StaticFile` enumeration are unaffected. The sources in the repository stay readable and unminified: a direct `swift run` serves them as-is, while any image build — including the local `make site-mount` one, which builds the same Dockerfile — serves the optimized copies.
+
+Preview the optimized output locally — requires only Docker and writes to the git-ignored `.build/minified`:
+```sh
+make ast-minify
+```
+
 ### Required variables
 The Makefile and Compose files read these from a `.env` file (or the environment). Provide your own values — do **not** commit secrets.
 | Variable | Used for |