diff --git a/dicquo/dicquo/settings.py b/dicquo/dicquo/settings.py
index b04b690..d1bab03 100644
--- a/dicquo/dicquo/settings.py
+++ b/dicquo/dicquo/settings.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ INSTALLED_APPS: list[str] = [
 
 MIDDLEWARE: list[str] = [
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
+    'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
@@ -125,9 +126,15 @@ MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
 # Using pathlib for cleaner path management
 # Adjusted to serve from public/media relative to project root
 MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR.parent / 'public/media'
-STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR.parent / 'public/static'
+
+# STATIC_ROOT is where collectstatic collects files for production.
+# It cannot be the same as a directory in STATICFILES_DIRS.
+STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR.parent / 'staticfiles'
 
 STATICFILES_DIRS = [
-    # Add other static dirs here if needed
+    BASE_DIR.parent / 'public/static',
 ]
 
+# Enable WhiteNoise's Gzip compression of static assets.
+if not DEBUG:
+    STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 74d941a..6d19a53 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -102,6 +102,28 @@ beautifulsoup4 = ">=4.10.0"
 lxml = ">=4.9.0"
 regex = ">=2022.1.18"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "gunicorn"
+version = "25.1.0"
+description = "WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.10"
+files = [
+    {file = "gunicorn-25.1.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:d0b1236ccf27f72cfe14bce7caadf467186f19e865094ca84221424e839b8b8b"},
+    {file = "gunicorn-25.1.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:1426611d959fa77e7de89f8c0f32eed6aa03ee735f98c01efba3e281b1c47616"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+packaging = "*"
+
+[package.extras]
+eventlet = ["eventlet (>=0.40.3)"]
+gevent = ["gevent (>=24.10.1)"]
+http2 = ["h2 (>=4.1.0)"]
+setproctitle = ["setproctitle"]
+testing = ["coverage", "eventlet (>=0.40.3)", "gevent (>=24.10.1)", "h2 (>=4.1.0)", "httpx[http2]", "pytest", "pytest-asyncio", "pytest-cov", "uvloop (>=0.19.0)"]
+tornado = ["tornado (>=6.5.0)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "lxml"
 version = "6.0.2"
@@ -257,6 +279,17 @@ html-clean = ["lxml_html_clean"]
 html5 = ["html5lib"]
 htmlsoup = ["BeautifulSoup4"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "packaging"
+version = "26.0"
+description = "Core utilities for Python packages"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "packaging-26.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:b36f1fef9334a5588b4166f8bcd26a14e521f2b55e6b9de3aaa80d3ff7a37529"},
+    {file = "packaging-26.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:00243ae351a257117b6a241061796684b084ed1c516a08c48a3f7e147a9d80b4"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pillow"
 version = "12.1.1"
@@ -564,7 +597,21 @@ files = [
     {file = "tzdata-2025.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:de39c2ca5dc7b0344f2eba86f49d614019d29f060fc4ebc8a417896a620b56a7"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "whitenoise"
+version = "6.11.0"
+description = "Radically simplified static file serving for WSGI applications"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.9"
+files = [
+    {file = "whitenoise-6.11.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:b2aeb45950597236f53b5342b3121c5de69c8da0109362aee506ce88e022d258"},
+    {file = "whitenoise-6.11.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:0f5bfce6061ae6611cd9396a8231e088722e4fc67bc13a111be74c738d99375f"},
+]
+
+[package.extras]
+brotli = ["brotli"]
+
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.12"
-content-hash = "52e1781b6a9c2d36cbc489df80b56a23e5459ed3247c052b6e89287bcfbfb58b"
+content-hash = "e8bffeb8adca36fe7ff2ac03008ed108ef8eb37bc128ff58b0d991257e9694f6"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5bf6b2e..d4aee96 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ pillow = "^12.1.1"
 pytils = "^0.4.4"
 etpgrf = "^0.1.4"
 django-environ = "^0.12.1"
+whitenoise = "^6.11.0"
+gunicorn = "^25.1.0"
 
 
 [build-system]