Hostgator and Compression

[pmeenan]

Depending on the version of Apache they are using it will be mod_gzip (1.x) or mod_deflate (2.x). Looking at the response headers from your test earlier in the thread it looks like they are on 2.2.15:

Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) mod_ssl/2.2.15 0.9.8l DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635

The <ifModule mod_gzip.c> is useless since 2.2 doesn't use mod_gzip.

For mod_deflate it should look more like this:

<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript
</ifmodule>

but that is assuming they have it installed (and given the quality of answers you have received so far I'd be worried).