diff --git a/Gruntfile.js b/Gruntfile.js
index 12612129d0..036850c2de 100644
--- a/Gruntfile.js
+++ b/Gruntfile.js
@@ -75,6 +75,20 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
 
     sprite: sprite,
 
+    imagemin: {
+      spritesmith: {
+        options: {
+          optimizationLevel: 7
+        },
+        files: [{
+          expand: true,
+          flatten: true,
+          src: ["common/dist/sprites/*.png"],
+          dest: "common/dist/sprites/"
+        }]
+      }
+    },
+
     cssmin: {
       dist: {
         options: {
@@ -209,7 +223,7 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
   });
 
   // Register tasks.
-  grunt.registerTask('compile:sprites', ['clean:sprite', 'sprite', 'cssmin']);
+  grunt.registerTask('compile:sprites', ['clean:sprite', 'sprite', 'imagemin', 'cssmin']);
   grunt.registerTask('build:prod', ['loadManifestFiles', 'clean:build', 'browserify', 'uglify', 'stylus', 'cssmin', 'copy:build', 'hashres','prepare:staticNewStuff']);
   grunt.registerTask('build:dev', ['browserify', 'stylus', 'prepare:staticNewStuff']);
   grunt.registerTask('build:test', ['test:prepare:translations', 'build:dev']);
@@ -250,6 +264,7 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-concurrent');
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-spritesmith');
+  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-imagemin');
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-hashres');
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-karma');
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 8ba1ff5cb2..9e50e1ed02 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
     "event-stream": "^3.2.2",
     "expect.js": "~0.2.0",
     "glob": "^4.3.5",
+    "grunt-contrib-imagemin": "^0.9.4",
     "istanbul": "^0.3.14",
     "karma": "~0.10.2",
     "karma-chai-plugins": "~0.1.0",