Does File Compression software on a website benefit SEO?

[theideapeople]

Hi all.

Should we be using File Compression software on our website files for SEO benefit?

If so, do you like Deflate or gzip?

Thank you for your help!

Jay

[ufmedia]

If you're talking about enabling compression in htaccess, then I'd say absolutely.  Google has made it pretty clear that page speed is looked at as a signal.  I've used gzip in the past.  Use Google's page speed tool in Firebug.

[theideapeople]

ryan, thank you for the help!