diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 9109bd4e..9a738450 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -116,11 +116,11 @@
 			<param name="transformationName" value="SneakyThrows" />
 		</antcall>
 		<mkdir dir="dist" />
-		<tar destfile="dist/website.tar">
+		<tar destfile="dist/website.tar.bz2" compression="bzip2">
 			<tarfileset dir="build/website" />
 			<tarfileset dir="doc/api" prefix="api" />
 		</tar>
-		<echo>Now upload dist/website.tar to the webserver.</echo>
+		<echo>Now upload dist/website.tar.bz2 to the webserver.</echo>
 		<echo>If you want to host projectlombok.org on github, run the website/publish script, but this is not where the site is currently hosted.</echo>
 	</target>
 	
diff --git a/website/publish b/website/publish
index 554ec17e..412c71f6 100755
--- a/website/publish
+++ b/website/publish
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ if [ ! -e src/lombok/core/Version.java ]; then
 	exit
 fi
 
-if [ ! -e dist/website.tar ]; then
-	echo There is no dist/website.tar file! Run:
+if [ ! -e dist/website.tar.bz2 ]; then
+	echo There is no dist/website.tar.bz2 file! Run:
 	echo ant website
 	echo then restart this script
 	exit
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ echo first before running this script
 fi
 git checkout gh-pages || exit
 rm -r * || exit
-tar xf ../../../dist/website.tar || exit
+tar xfj ../../../dist/website.tar.bz2 || exit
 git add . || exit
 git commit -a -m website || exit
 git push origin gh-pages || exit