Google’s AMP is a gilded cage

Re:Google’s AMP is a gilded cage by jakasto on Sunday November 27, 2016 @03:28PM (#13051319)

According to Google PageSpeed Insights, your speed scores are 59/100 for mobile and 40/100 for desktop. The "optimize images" section says there are 1.3MB of image optimizations to do. That's just the image bloat, not the image content, and it's just one of the improvements to make. If you want to make AMP go away, make slow webpages go away.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

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Re:Google’s AMP is a gilded cage by majewsky on Sunday November 27, 2016 @08:03PM (#13052712)

Interesting. I put my own blog (link in my profile) into there, and it scored only 90/100 on mobile. Google now wants to talk me into enabling compression and caching on a website that is literally 4.98 KB large (including all assets).

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Re:Google’s AMP is a gilded cage by shakna on Sunday November 27, 2016 @11:00PM (#13053314)

I got 91/100 mobile, 90/100 desktop for a site that is 4.95kb.

Reasons?

* Apparently the HTML should be minified.

* Apparently I should use gzip, because 4.95kb is too big.

* The inline styles are below the content to prevent showing the user nothing as it paints. Google thinks the 594 bytes of styles needs to be in a separate request.

I think insights is pretty useless at analysing sites below a certain size threshold.

At these sizes, network latency is the biggest drain on loading a page... Which effectively means users don't notice loading times when they click a link.

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