diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d31dee2b..f532c1c2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ social-auth-app-django==3.1.0
 social-auth-core[azuread]==3.0.0
 text-unidecode==1.2
 tornado==5.0.2
-whitenoise==4.1.2
+whitenoise[brotli]==4.1.2