diff --git a/src/pretix/base/templates/empty.html b/src/pretix/base/templates/empty.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/src/pretix/helpers/template_loaders.py b/src/pretix/helpers/template_loaders.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..419bd22639
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/pretix/helpers/template_loaders.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#
+# This file is part of pretix (Community Edition).
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Raphael Michel and contributors
+# Copyright (C) 2020-2021 rami.io GmbH and contributors
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General
+# Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation in version 3 of the License.
+#
+# ADDITIONAL TERMS APPLY: Pursuant to Section 7 of the GNU Affero General Public License, additional terms are
+# applicable granting you additional permissions and placing additional restrictions on your usage of this software.
+# Please refer to the pretix LICENSE file to obtain the full terms applicable to this work. If you did not receive
+# this file, see <https://pretix.eu/about/en/license>.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
+# warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Affero General Public License for more
+# details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program.  If not, see
+# <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+from django.template.loaders.app_directories import Loader
+from django.template.utils import get_app_template_dirs
+
+
+class AppLoader(Loader):
+
+    def get_dirs(self):
+        ds = get_app_template_dirs('templates')
+        ignore_patterns = {
+            # Ignore templates of plugins we don't actually use as they cause trouble during
+            # static file compression
+            '/django_filters/',
+            '/django_otp/',
+        }
+        return [d for d in ds if not any(p in str(d) for p in ignore_patterns)]
diff --git a/src/pretix/presale/style.py b/src/pretix/presale/style.py
index b74d8f235a..eee9591c23 100644
--- a/src/pretix/presale/style.py
+++ b/src/pretix/presale/style.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlsplit
 
 import django_libsass
 import sass
-from compressor.filters.cssmin import CSSCompressorFilter
+from compressor.filters.cssmin import CSSMinFilter
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.cache import cache
 from django.core.files.base import ContentFile, File
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ def compile_scss(object, file="main.scss", fonts=True):
             include_paths=[sassdir], output_style='nested',
             custom_functions=cf
         )
-        cssf = CSSCompressorFilter(css)
+        cssf = CSSMinFilter(css)
         css = cssf.output()
         cache.set('sass_compile_{}_{}'.format(cp, srcchecksum), css, 600)
 
diff --git a/src/pretix/settings.py b/src/pretix/settings.py
index 18f2b998f0..2521770627 100644
--- a/src/pretix/settings.py
+++ b/src/pretix/settings.py
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW = 'pretix.base.views.errors.csrf_failure'
 
 template_loaders = (
     'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
-    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
+    'pretix.helpers.template_loaders.AppLoader',
 )
 if not DEBUG:
     template_loaders = (
@@ -648,6 +648,10 @@ COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS = (
     ('text/vue', 'pretix.helpers.compressor.VueCompiler'),
 )
 
+COMPRESS_OFFLINE_CONTEXT = {
+    'basetpl': 'empty.html',
+}
+
 COMPRESS_ENABLED = COMPRESS_OFFLINE = not debug_fallback
 
 COMPRESS_FILTERS = {
@@ -655,7 +659,10 @@ COMPRESS_FILTERS = {
         # CssAbsoluteFilter is incredibly slow, especially when dealing with our _flags.scss
         # However, we don't need it if we consequently use the static() function in Sass
         # 'compressor.filters.css_default.CssAbsoluteFilter',
-        'compressor.filters.cssmin.CSSCompressorFilter',
+        'compressor.filters.cssmin.rCSSMinFilter',
+    ),
+    'js': (
+        'compressor.filters.jsmin.JSMinFilter',
     )
 }
 
diff --git a/src/setup.py b/src/setup.py
index c0ead90ebb..9547b747a3 100644
--- a/src/setup.py
+++ b/src/setup.py
@@ -165,13 +165,12 @@ setup(
         'celery==4.4.*',
         'chardet==4.0.*',
         'cryptography>=3.4.2',
-        'csscompressor',
         'css-inline==0.7.*',
         'defusedcsv>=1.1.0',
         'dj-static',
         'Django==3.2.*',
         'django-bootstrap3==15.0.*',
-        'django-compressor==2.4.*',
+        'django-compressor==3.1.*',
         'django-countries==7.2.*',
         'django-filter==21.1',
         'django-formset-js-improved==0.5.0.2',