diff --git a/ui/oce/index.jsx b/ui/oce/index.jsx
index 2d0c50a5a..02893a1a3 100644
--- a/ui/oce/index.jsx
+++ b/ui/oce/index.jsx
@@ -298,22 +298,22 @@ class OCApp extends React.Component{
   }
 
   exportBtn(){
-    if(this.state.exporting){
-      return (
-          <div className="filters">
-            <div className="progress">
-              <div className="progress-bar progress-bar-danger" role="progressbar" style={{width: "100%"}}>
-                {this.t('export:exporting')}
-              </div>
-            </div>
-          </div>
-      )
+    const { filters, selectedYears, locale, selectedMonths } = this.state;
+    let url = new URI('/api/ocds/excelExport')
+      .addSearch(filters.toJS())
+      .addSearch('year', selectedYears.toArray())
+      .addSearch('language', locale);
+
+    if(selectedYears.count() == 1){
+      url = url.addSearch('month', selectedMonths && selectedMonths.toJS())
+        .addSearch('monthly', true);
     }
-    return <div className="filters" onClick={e => this.downloadExcel()}>
+
+    return <a className="filters" href={url} download="export.zip">
       <img className="top-nav-icon" src="assets/icons/export.svg" width="100%" height="100%"/>
       {this.t('export:export')}
       <i className="glyphicon glyphicon-menu-down"></i>
-    </div>
+    </a>
   }
 
   toggleDashboardSwitcher(e){
diff --git a/ui/oce/style.less b/ui/oce/style.less
index 68d3a2f4f..eff6f84e0 100644
--- a/ui/oce/style.less
+++ b/ui/oce/style.less
@@ -63,3 +63,8 @@
         }
     }
 }
+
+a.filters{
+  text-decoration: none;
+  color: white;
+}
diff --git a/web/src/main/java/org/devgateway/ocds/web/rest/controller/export/ExcelExportController.java b/web/src/main/java/org/devgateway/ocds/web/rest/controller/export/ExcelExportController.java
index 714fb65b0..81a85b923 100644
--- a/web/src/main/java/org/devgateway/ocds/web/rest/controller/export/ExcelExportController.java
+++ b/web/src/main/java/org/devgateway/ocds/web/rest/controller/export/ExcelExportController.java
@@ -1,19 +1,7 @@
 package org.devgateway.ocds.web.rest.controller.export;
 
 import io.swagger.annotations.ApiOperation;
-import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.util.zip.Deflater;
-import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
-import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-import javax.validation.Valid;
 import org.apache.commons.io.FileCleaningTracker;
-import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.devgateway.ocds.persistence.mongo.Release;
 import org.devgateway.ocds.persistence.mongo.constants.MongoConstants;
 import org.devgateway.ocds.web.rest.controller.GenericOCDSController;
@@ -29,6 +17,13 @@
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
 
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+import javax.validation.Valid;
+import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.zip.Deflater;
+import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
+import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
 
 import static org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.query.Query.query;
 
@@ -39,19 +34,15 @@
 @RestController
 public class ExcelExportController extends GenericOCDSController {
     protected final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ExcelExportController.class);
-
+    @Autowired
+    protected AdminSettingsRepository adminSettingsRepository;
     @Autowired
     private SettingsUtils settingsUtils;
-
     @Autowired
     private ExcelGenerator excelGenerator;
-
     @Autowired
     private FileCleaningTracker fileCleaningTracker;
 
-    @Autowired
-    protected AdminSettingsRepository adminSettingsRepository;
-
     @ApiOperation(value = "Export releases in Excel format.")
     @RequestMapping(value = "/api/ocds/excelExport", method = {RequestMethod.GET, RequestMethod.POST})
     public void excelExport(@ModelAttribute @Valid final YearFilterPagingRequest filter,
@@ -74,39 +65,25 @@ public void excelExport(@ModelAttribute @Valid final YearFilterPagingRequest fil
         if (numberOfReleases <= settingsUtils.getExcelBatchSize()) {
             response.setContentType("application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet");
             response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + "excel-export.xlsx");
-
             response.getOutputStream().write(excelGenerator.getExcelDownload(filter));
         } else {
-            File file = File.createTempFile("createZip", ".zip");
-            logger.info("Created temp file: " + file.getAbsolutePath());
-
-            BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(file));
-
-            ZipOutputStream zout = new ZipOutputStream(bos);
+            response.setContentType("application/zip");
+            response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + "excel-export.zip");
+            response.flushBuffer();
+            ZipOutputStream zout = new ZipOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(response.getOutputStream()));
             zout.setMethod(ZipOutputStream.DEFLATED);
-            zout.setLevel(Deflater.BEST_SPEED);
-
+            zout.setLevel(Deflater.NO_COMPRESSION);
             int numberOfPages = (int) Math.ceil((double) numberOfReleases / filter.getPageSize());
             for (int i = 0; i < numberOfPages; i++) {
                 filter.setPageNumber(i);
-
                 ZipEntry ze = new ZipEntry("excel-export-page " + (i + 1) + ".xlsx");
-
                 zout.putNextEntry(ze);
                 byte[] bytes = excelGenerator.getExcelDownload(filter);
                 zout.write(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
-
                 zout.closeEntry();
+                response.flushBuffer();
             }
             zout.close();
-            fileCleaningTracker.track(file, file);
-            IOUtils.closeQuietly(bos);
-
-            response.setContentType("application/zip");
-            response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + "excel-export.zip");
-
-            InputStream is = new FileInputStream(file);
-            IOUtils.copy(is, response.getOutputStream());
             response.flushBuffer();
         }
     }
diff --git a/web/src/main/java/org/devgateway/ocds/web/util/SettingsUtils.java b/web/src/main/java/org/devgateway/ocds/web/util/SettingsUtils.java
index 88111202f..3f07f5d70 100644
--- a/web/src/main/java/org/devgateway/ocds/web/util/SettingsUtils.java
+++ b/web/src/main/java/org/devgateway/ocds/web/util/SettingsUtils.java
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package org.devgateway.ocds.web.util;
 
-import java.util.List;
 import org.devgateway.toolkit.persistence.dao.AdminSettings;
 import org.devgateway.toolkit.persistence.repository.AdminSettingsRepository;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
@@ -8,6 +7,8 @@
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
 
+import java.util.List;
+
 /**
  * @author idobre
  * @since 6/22/16
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ public class SettingsUtils {
 
     public static final String DEFAULT_LANGUAGE = "en_US";
 
-    private static final Integer EXCELBATCHSIZEDEFAULT = 10000;
+    private static final Integer EXCELBATCHSIZEDEFAULT = 5000;
 
     @Autowired
     private AdminSettingsRepository adminSettingsRepository;