I requested gzip as well for a static media site (https) and they said:

Our front-end Nginx server will not use gzip compression for requests 
> served over HTTPS. This is by design as a mitigation for the BREACH 
> exploit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREACH>.
>
> We've an internal feature ticket open to consider making the mitigation 
> optional for customers that don't need it. I will make a note of your 
> inquiry there.
>

Perhaps you can +1 them on this feature request.

However, if you're serving your static files via web2py itself (and not via 
a static app on another domain for speed) then web2py will send the .gz 
file version of a requested asset if it exists.  For example, a request for 
mysite.css comes in, web2py sends mysite.css.gz automatically if it exists, 
else it sends mysite.css.

The zip_static_files.py utility in your web2py scripts directory will 
create gzipped versions of all your static files for you.

HTH,

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