Tried compressed delivery of site to Yahoo! Slurp through Gzipped Files?

[Nacho]

I noticed a ysearchblog on Yahoo! Search Tips for Webmasters: Saving Bandwidth (http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000078.html) where it says,

Our crawler supports gzipped files to reduce bandwidth requirements. On average, you will get a 75% savings when you enable compression (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6802) for your site. . . .
Has anybody tried this? How did it work for you? Anything in particular we should be careful about?

[rustybrick]

Caching works well. I personally do not like to use any compression techniques on my sites, it produces its own strain on the server.

[I, Brian]

I believe forum software such as vBulletin and IPB, for instance, both offer compression options for generating forum pages. No apparent problems so far using it.

[qcguide]

Hello Nacho. I use it on some of my sites and haven't run into any problems whatsoever. It works like a charm. I'm in the process of installing it on the rest of my sites.

[Nacho]

Hello Nacho. I use it on some of my sites and haven't run into any problems whatsoever. It works like a charm. I'm in the process of installing it on the rest of my sites.
Thanks everyone!

For those of you who are using compression techniques, do you see that Yahoo! picks up all your pages in the index just as you passed it along? or do they release the pages to the index slowly as if they pass through the evaluation process?

Has anyone measured the speed in which the crawl takes place and gets indexed with compression and compared it to regular inclusion?