diff --git a/app/logical/api_cache_generator.rb b/app/logical/api_cache_generator.rb
index 3a86a5ce3..b871520ee 100644
--- a/app/logical/api_cache_generator.rb
+++ b/app/logical/api_cache_generator.rb
@@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ class ApiCacheGenerator
       f.seek(-2, IO::SEEK_END)
       f.print("]\n")
     end
-
+    Zlib::GzipWriter.open("/var/www/danbooru2/shared/system/cache/tags.json.gz") do |gz|
+      gz.write(IO.binread("/var/www/danbooru2/shared/system/cache/tags.json"))
+      gz.close
+    end
     RemoteFileManager.new("/var/www/danbooru2/shared/system/cache/tags.json").distribute
+    RemoteFileManager.new("/var/www/danbooru2/shared/system/cache/tags.json.gz").distribute
   end
 end
diff --git a/config/deploy.rb b/config/deploy.rb
index 064a28cf7..ee3d39aa1 100644
--- a/config/deploy.rb
+++ b/config/deploy.rb
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ namespace :data do
     run "mkdir -p #{release_path}/public/cache"
     run "mkdir -p #{deploy_to}/shared/system/cache"
     run "touch #{deploy_to}/shared/system/cache/tags.json"
-    run "ln -s #{deploy_to}/shared/system/cache/tags.json #{release_path}/public/cache/tags.json"
+    run "touch #{deploy_to}/shared/system/cache/tags.json.gz"
+    run "ln -s #{deploy_to}/shared/system/cache/tags.json.gz #{release_path}/public/cache/tags.json.gz"
   end
 end