[nonane]

Add this to your ".htaccess" file in your public_html/ directory.

<FilesMatch "\.(php|html?)$">
php_value zlib.output_compression 4000
</FilesMatch>

BEWARE:
If you use any type of downloader script, that outputs a header length, THIS WILL BREAK YOUR DOWNLOADER. Also, you may want to tune the value down a bit. I personally use 4000 because it works well for my site, and I don't have an downloader scripts, and I have very little images. This all depends on the power of your server, it may work better at a higher value. Play with it a bit, this may help.

[Squashman]

Very interesting. I have a Photo Gallery, do you think it will help it load faster because I only get 384kbps upload on by broadband.

I like your DataStorm website.

[nonane]

It may indeed help your DISPLAYED content download faster, but as for file downloading, there's nothing to help that unless you use a download manager such as GetRight, or Download Accelerator.

[Squashman]

So you just need to put it in the root directory of your website and it helps with all other directories including cgi-bin or do I have to put the .htaccess file in every directory. I would assume every directory that I want to speed up.

[nonane]

Actually, the great part is you only have to put it in the root directory of your site, all directories under it are affected.

[Squashman]

Originally Posted by nonane

Actually, the great part is you only have to put it in the root directory of your site, all directories under it are affected.

But is cgi-gin actually cosidered to be under your root html directory? Because they actually sit at the save level in my directory structure.

/home/username/cgi-bin
/home/username/www