Using Rack::Deflater we can compress our responses for HTML and assets using gzip automatically. This allows us to serve considerably smaller (in kb) pages, which should go over the wire faster as well.

Trying out /login, /hosts, and /dashboard, processing times were similar with and without this, but the page size was reduced up to 80% in some cases.

See the following gist with benchmarks using siege: https://gist.github.com/dLobatog/600f151fd0676345c95a - notice some pages like /login are reduced a whooping 75% in size.