diff --git a/lib/trino-parquet/src/main/java/io/trino/parquet/writer/ParquetWriter.java b/lib/trino-parquet/src/main/java/io/trino/parquet/writer/ParquetWriter.java
index bf1f20cc77be..00cb658020e0 100644
--- a/lib/trino-parquet/src/main/java/io/trino/parquet/writer/ParquetWriter.java
+++ b/lib/trino-parquet/src/main/java/io/trino/parquet/writer/ParquetWriter.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import io.trino.parquet.writer.ColumnWriter.BufferData;
 import io.trino.spi.Page;
 import io.trino.spi.type.Type;
+import it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.ints.IntArrays;
 import org.apache.parquet.column.ParquetProperties;
 import org.apache.parquet.format.ColumnMetaData;
 import org.apache.parquet.format.CompressionCodec;
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@
 import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Optional;
@@ -317,16 +319,33 @@ private void flush()
 
         // update stats
         long stripeStartOffset = outputStream.longSize();
-        List<ColumnMetaData> metadatas = bufferDataList.stream()
+        List<ColumnMetaData> columns = bufferDataList.stream()
                 .map(BufferData::getMetaData)
                 .collect(toImmutableList());
-        updateRowGroups(updateColumnMetadataOffset(metadatas, stripeStartOffset));
+
+        // Since the reader coalesces nearby small reads, it is beneficial to
+        // reorder data streams to group columns with small size together
+        int[] indexes = new int[columns.size()];
+        Arrays.setAll(indexes, index -> index);
+        IntArrays.quickSort(indexes, (index, otherIndex) ->
+                Long.compare(columns.get(index).getTotal_compressed_size(), columns.get(otherIndex).getTotal_compressed_size()));
+
+        // Ordering of columns in the metadata should remain unchanged.
+        // Only the offsets in file at which the columns start may change as a result
+        // of reordering column data streams by their compressed size
+        long currentOffset = stripeStartOffset;
+        for (int index : indexes) {
+            ColumnMetaData columnMetaData = columns.get(index);
+            columnMetaData.setData_page_offset(currentOffset);
+            currentOffset += columnMetaData.getTotal_compressed_size();
+        }
+        updateRowGroups(columns);
 
         // flush pages
-        bufferDataList.stream()
-                .map(BufferData::getData)
-                .flatMap(List::stream)
-                .forEach(data -> data.writeData(outputStream));
+        for (int index : indexes) {
+            bufferDataList.get(index).getData()
+                    .forEach(data -> data.writeData(outputStream));
+        }
     }
 
     private void writeFooter()
@@ -379,20 +398,6 @@ private static org.apache.parquet.format.ColumnChunk toColumnChunk(ColumnMetaDat
         return columnChunk;
     }
 
-    private List<ColumnMetaData> updateColumnMetadataOffset(List<ColumnMetaData> columns, long offset)
-    {
-        ImmutableList.Builder<ColumnMetaData> builder = ImmutableList.builder();
-        long currentOffset = offset;
-        for (ColumnMetaData column : columns) {
-            ColumnMetaData columnMetaData = new ColumnMetaData(column.type, column.encodings, column.path_in_schema, column.codec, column.num_values, column.total_uncompressed_size, column.total_compressed_size, currentOffset);
-            columnMetaData.setStatistics(column.getStatistics());
-            columnMetaData.setEncoding_stats(column.getEncoding_stats());
-            builder.add(columnMetaData);
-            currentOffset += column.getTotal_compressed_size();
-        }
-        return builder.build();
-    }
-
     @VisibleForTesting
     static String formatCreatedBy(String trinoVersion)
     {
diff --git a/lib/trino-parquet/src/test/java/io/trino/parquet/writer/TestParquetWriter.java b/lib/trino-parquet/src/test/java/io/trino/parquet/writer/TestParquetWriter.java
index 65adbfb6ed5f..5e88c5e42faf 100644
--- a/lib/trino-parquet/src/test/java/io/trino/parquet/writer/TestParquetWriter.java
+++ b/lib/trino-parquet/src/test/java/io/trino/parquet/writer/TestParquetWriter.java
@@ -24,24 +24,29 @@
 import io.trino.parquet.reader.MetadataReader;
 import io.trino.parquet.reader.PageReader;
 import io.trino.parquet.reader.TestingParquetDataSource;
+import io.trino.spi.type.DecimalType;
 import io.trino.spi.type.Type;
 import org.apache.parquet.VersionParser;
 import org.apache.parquet.column.ColumnDescriptor;
+import org.apache.parquet.hadoop.metadata.BlockMetaData;
 import org.apache.parquet.hadoop.metadata.ColumnChunkMetaData;
 import org.apache.parquet.hadoop.metadata.ParquetMetadata;
 import org.apache.parquet.schema.PrimitiveType;
 import org.testng.annotations.Test;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Comparator;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Optional;
 
+import static com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList.toImmutableList;
 import static io.trino.memory.context.AggregatedMemoryContext.newSimpleAggregatedMemoryContext;
 import static io.trino.parquet.ParquetTestUtils.generateInputPages;
 import static io.trino.parquet.ParquetTestUtils.writeParquetFile;
 import static io.trino.spi.type.BigintType.BIGINT;
 import static io.trino.spi.type.IntegerType.INTEGER;
+import static io.trino.spi.type.TinyintType.TINYINT;
 import static org.apache.parquet.schema.PrimitiveType.PrimitiveTypeName.INT32;
 import static org.apache.parquet.schema.Type.Repetition.REQUIRED;
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
@@ -110,4 +115,37 @@ public void testWrittenPageSize()
         }
         assertThat(pagesRead).isGreaterThan(10);
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testColumnReordering()
+            throws IOException
+    {
+        List<String> columnNames = ImmutableList.of("columnA", "columnB", "columnC", "columnD");
+        List<Type> types = ImmutableList.of(BIGINT, TINYINT, INTEGER, DecimalType.createDecimalType(12));
+
+        // Write a file with many row groups
+        ParquetDataSource dataSource = new TestingParquetDataSource(
+                writeParquetFile(
+                        ParquetWriterOptions.builder()
+                                .setMaxBlockSize(DataSize.ofBytes(20 * 1024))
+                                .build(),
+                        types,
+                        columnNames,
+                        generateInputPages(types, 100, 100)),
+                new ParquetReaderOptions());
+
+        ParquetMetadata parquetMetadata = MetadataReader.readFooter(dataSource, Optional.empty());
+        assertThat(parquetMetadata.getBlocks().size()).isGreaterThanOrEqualTo(10);
+        for (BlockMetaData blockMetaData : parquetMetadata.getBlocks()) {
+            // Sort columns by size in file
+            List<ColumnChunkMetaData> columns = blockMetaData.getColumns().stream()
+                    .sorted(Comparator.comparingLong(ColumnChunkMetaData::getTotalUncompressedSize))
+                    .collect(toImmutableList());
+            // Verify that the columns are stored in the same order
+            List<Long> offsets = columns.stream()
+                    .map(ColumnChunkMetaData::getFirstDataPageOffset)
+                    .collect(toImmutableList());
+            assertThat(offsets).isSorted();
+        }
+    }
 }