diff --git a/dist/cli.js b/dist/cli.js
index 7871cebe46f6df886b76364db5346adfa1838622..3189db69a236f65f99338c672b0b8c766a31e523 100644
--- a/dist/cli.js
+++ b/dist/cli.js
@@ -110,15 +110,16 @@ async function run() {
 	};
 	let app = express();
 	app.disable("x-powered-by");
-	if (!isRSCBuild) app.use(compression());
+	app.set("trust proxy", true);
 	let expressPublicPath = getExpressPath(build.publicPath);
 	app.use(path.posix.join(expressPublicPath, "assets"), express.static(path.join(build.assetsBuildDirectory, "assets"), {
 		immutable: true,
 		maxAge: "1y"
 	}));
-	app.use(expressPublicPath, express.static(build.assetsBuildDirectory));
-	app.use(express.static("public", { maxAge: "1h" }));
-	app.use(morgan("tiny"));
+	// patched: page and .data requests skip the static file lookups, two fs.stat calls each
+	let onlyForFiles = (middleware) => (req, res, next) => /\.[^/.]+$/.test(req.path) && !req.path.endsWith(".data") ? middleware(req, res, next) : next();
+	app.use(expressPublicPath, onlyForFiles(express.static(build.assetsBuildDirectory)));
+	app.use(onlyForFiles(express.static("public", { maxAge: "1h" })));
 	if (build.fetch) app.all("/{*splat}", createRequestListener(build.fetch));
 	else app.all("/{*splat}", createRequestHandler({
 		build: buildModule,