/. is highly compressable: needs optimizing? (Score 1)

I monitored the stats while I downloaded /. beta a couple of times and saw that it is compressable by more than 10:1. Since that data is compressed by high performance Symplex compressor equipment (http://www.symplex.com) on the hops between the Net gateway and my place it may not be useable in real life. But there seems to be boatloads of room to push more data over a given amount of bandwidth. Or as is more real in this case to further optimize the html/graphics to serve (more) clients in less time. Maybe I missed an appareant reason why this data is so compressable. Wasn't there talk of compression support in Netscape a few years back?