I have been having a few problems with google reporting slow loading times on certain areas of my website. Google has reccomended gzip for these pages however my problem is that my server does not support htaccess. Is there a way i can compress my store with gzip manually. Iv heard that you can add a snippet of code to the php pages which will make this work. Is this possible with scc and how do you do it? Also is there a way to gzip the html files without converting them to php files? Im new to this compression area however my scc store is suffering in the speed area quite a bit compared to the rest of the site. If anyone can help or knows anything else to speed up my store id be very gratefull

Due to the lack of replies, im gonna carry out a little experiment and try to add to following line of code to the top of each .php file that scc generates and upload it.

Il run a gzip test tool to then see if it has worked and how much it has compressed my pages, if any. Il post my results if successfull

David posted some guidance on the use of compression that you may find beneficial.

I have always used gzip on my sever without problems before and usualy always halves loading times. What exactly do you mean? Scc seems to be very slow compared to the rest of my site and google webmaster tools is reporting that many of my shop php pages should be gzipped. This is affecting my google rank. Does anyone else have any suggestions?

I don't mean anything specifically. I thought I'd pass some useful information concerning gzip that you may not have been aware of, especially on shared hosting accounts. If it's working for you, that's great.

Tom is right concerning gzip. What you are looking for (regarding your code) is called "deflation". I am not sure if it is the same with php or not. I wouldn't worry too much about the speed issue, it only effects your page rank, not your search rankings; and google is getting rid of their page ranking.