Hostgator and Compression

[pmeenan]

If you look at the first 2 requests they are being gzipped - http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100611...imization/

That is all that the php is responsible for, the rest are static files and unless you can get mod_deflate working you would either need to use a CDN to do it for you or use a wordpress plugin that would take care of combining and compressing them.