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A bit over a year ago I decided to disable Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project on this site. I have a long history with AMP and at some point I was one of it’s main critics. I’ve since accepted that it has a role to play, with no valid alternative. At the same time, I am happy to NOT have to...
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I’d like to open with the following comment on one of my anti-AMP shares, that I received today. HI I see that you have constant opposition to AMP because it renders badly on iphone. Do you know how expensive is DATA here in 3rd world?Native websites, force people to load trackers + install...
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Two month ago I wrote at length how Twitter was redirecting links on mobile devices to AMP versions of the content. Served not from AMP Cache, but from actual site’s web servers. Few weeks before that, I wrote an article asking to make AMP links optional in Google search result. Based on how...
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One month ago I decided to disable Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) support on my site. This is a quick follow up on my experience so far and some metrics. In summary, I like it. Proof that it’s gone The following image captured in Google Webmaster’s Search Console indicates that the total...
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Table of Contents To disable AMP support, I took the following steps. Redirect All 404s to Homepage Redirect All AMP links to non AMP version Few days ago I disabled AMP support on my site. To disable AMP support, I took the following steps. Log in to my WordPress dashboardGo to...
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I was reading some articles on Hacker News about how we’ve lost the internet to big companies and how we are not doing anything about it and it got me thinking about Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) again. My story with AMP started in early 2016 when I enabled it on this site. It...
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Four month ago I noticed something weird with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project and wrote a blog post outlining my concerns. I first submitted the post to Reddit where it was not received well. People told me to “Read the Fucking Manual”. I remember telling my wife that I didn’t...
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This is another follow up to my 4 Month old blog post – how you may be loosing your mobile traffic to Google AMP pages. Note: AMP stands for Accelerate Mobile Pages – and it’s a roughly year old project from Google that aims to optimize mobile browsing experience by providing a free cache/CDN...
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3 Month ago I wrote how you may be loosing your mobile traffic to Google AMP pages, that got some attention. AMP stands for Accelerate Mobile Pages – and it’s a roughly year old project from Google that aims to optimize mobile browsing experience by providing a free cache/CDN layer, as well as...
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Table of Contents The Concerns Web Cache Can the cache be optional? Fixing the link WordPress Integration Fat bar at the top Conclusion Two weeks ago I wrote a blog post with a controversial title Google may be stealing your mobile traffic, where I outlined some criticism of...
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Table of Contents Accelerated Mobile Pages AMP In Action The Problem Guess what happens when the "close" button is clicked inside the AMP view? What about the little guy or gal? What can be done? Ask Google to give users an easy option to view the original post. Make sure your AMP...