Enable Text Compression for a URL without file extension .htaccess - .htaccess

Question

I am trying to solve the "Enable Text Compression" opportunity on the new Lighthouse page speed audits and am wondering how to enable text compression for a url like below:
www.magento2.com/customer/section/load?sections=&update_sectionid=false&_=12345678
I'm hoping there is a way to do this with .htaccess however there is no .txt appended so am unsure how I can apply to this controller that is generating a JSON response.
I've tried adding to my gzip configuration:
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/json.*
However above does not seem to work.
I have also tried adding below to my VHOST in order to try and force the type:
<Location "/customer/section">
ForceType application/json
</Location>
This however is not seeming to kick the compression into action. The response headers do show content-type: application/json so feel that Gzip should recognise this as a type of response that should be compressed.
My current gzip compression is set as below within .htaccess:
<ifModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/json.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</ifModule>
Where i have tried to enable by type however would like some other ideas on how this could be achieved?

Answer 1

Using mod deflate instead with below config just worked for me in the end:
<IfModule mod_filter.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/json
AddType x-font/otf .otf
AddType x-font/ttf .ttf
AddType x-font/eot .eot
AddType x-font/woff .woff
AddType image/x-icon .ico
AddType image/png .png
</IfModule>