GZIP encoding and GoogleBot

Would you care to look at the GZIP menu GoogleBot?

[ukgimp]

Simple question I know, but does G understand GZIP encoded pages? I dont have opportuity to test it out and I was wondering how well if at all Google could handle such data.

I know there are several ways of encoding the data. I have found the following to be easily implemted within the htaccess.

<FilesMatch "\.(php¦html?)$">
php_value zlib.output_compression 4096
</FilesMatch>

I know this is Google News, but rather than starting similar threads in other forums how do the others deal with such issues.

Cheers and thanks in advance.

[Imaster]

I have set my server for GZIP compression so that all sites are Gzip enabled and I never had any problem with Google & Googlebot, if that's what you meant.

[ukgimp]

That is what I was after Imaster.

How have you faired with the other crawlers and have you ever looked at the amount of users who dont have gzop encoded enabled browsers?