Question:

How do we, on our servers with WordPress, enable text compression in our web server configuration.

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https://web.dev/uses-text- compression/?utm_source=lighthouse&utm_medium=lr

Answer

The Apache web modules are already installed. You can enable this feature in your .htaccess file with your specific programs code.

If your site is PHP based, for like PHP compression compression can be
enabled by adding this line to a .user.ini file within your site directory:
 zlib.output_compression = On