1. gzipping everything looks fine and might improve your YSlow ranking but all it does is that it makes your bandwidth bill smaller. Once you get slashdotted/dugg etc. your site will brake sooner rather than later! Because now your server has to gzip every reply, which costs extra cpu circles. This will mean it can serve less site/minute. Thus I'm pretty sure this feature should not be activated by default. 2. JS compression: You might know jquery: http://jquery.com It has not only the packed version via the mentioned Packer utility. It also gives you gzipped and minified: http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2007/08/13/ Not sure if you meant that in your blog post. That's it, good bye.