So what AMP enabled device are you testing this with ?
How are you testing the ‘actual’ speed over a phone/cellular network on your phone in an AMP capable browser like Chrome ?
Are you testing the speed in your phone on cell network, in Chrome, where testing normal responsive post vs post loaded via AMP ?
How was that measured?
Did you test from multiple locations in the U.S., including those in outlaying areas, not “near” to downtown/cities, or conversely in crowded NYC location on subway?
Perhaps you’re not clear on how AMP actually works for those devices/cellular locations where AMP comes into play.
You can’t test on desktop. Not how it works.
Just some feedback.
It does speed things up when I test on my cellphone, sitting at my gym, on iPhone, using Chrome browser. Your mileage may vary 🙂
So what AMP enabled device are you testing this with ?
How are you testing the ‘actual’ speed over a phone/cellular network on your phone in an AMP capable browser like Chrome ?
Are you testing the speed in your phone on cell network, in Chrome, where testing normal responsive post vs post loaded via AMP ?
How was that measured?
Did you test from multiple locations in the U.S., including those in outlaying areas, not “near” to downtown/cities, or conversely in crowded NYC location on subway?
Perhaps you’re not clear on how AMP actually works for those devices/cellular locations where AMP comes into play.
You can’t test on desktop. Not how it works.
Just some feedback.
It does speed things up when I test on my cellphone, sitting at my gym, on iPhone, using Chrome browser. Your mileage may vary 🙂
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wjwc
(@wjwc)
of course there are numerous testing methods. I myself is obsessed with speed optimization. But the method i used now is very simple. My own human reaction.
So having this concept of “it’s faster”, I tested it with incognito mode, cached or uncached dns, and loaded theguardian’s very own AMP page vs normal page on desktop and on mobile.
You would say, this is not the way to test it. But I can tell you, coming from a 3rd world country with latency of a cow speed, I would wish the sites I browse day to day to be as fast as the content is churned on a daily basis. And knowing fb, and their just announced public avail of IA, this turns the table around, almost 180 degree.
If google really wants to speed things up, they should have made the google search pages pre-load on user’s mobile on results that have AMP similar to fb’s own IA.
i don’t know about you, but from where i am, i have yet to encounter an AMP result regardless of the article type. And for an AMP to be favored and displayed, webmasters have to go through a hassle to make sure they can serve AMP, and make sure AMP shows up on google.
So back to my comparison of why i think IA is the champ and google’s solution needs a re-work, is because the tendency of someone searching a result of a news, discovering an AMP page, and then share it on wherever is getting lesser to a degree. Not unless all results on first page gets a pre-load without favoring AMP.
Too many things to list.
I believe, according to various threads here, AMP appears to only be fully working on U.S., English news sites where posts have passed validation in the search console.
Your mileage may vary. Working well for us on our 16+ year old news sites in the U.S.
Feel free to not use it; totally up to you. 🙂
Thread Starter
wjwc
(@wjwc)
Meh. Already ditched it in less than 10 minutes. Nothing against you or wp. It’s google that’s who i’m complaining about. Not that it matters and they won’t bother anyway, but just posting it in public for anyone who might ask the same questions as me and question google’s way of doing things.
