Re:The Problem with AMP
by applejuicestand on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @10:08AM
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99% of internet users are average users. All your concerns are fine but at the end of the day when you want to read the news or whatever, speed matters.
Then why doesn't Google rank speedy pages?
It does, since 2010.
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-i...
I'm not convinced that's still true. Obviously I can't see google-rankings internal stuff, but...
If I search for weather, lyrics, or other common sites, the top results are always slow, bloated, JS-filled nightmares. Yet the sites that are quick and small are never to be found.
Maybe they do and they need to weight speed higher. I don't know, but I know that I don't ever seem to get fast loading results.
This feels too much like creating a problem that you want to be able to step in and solve.
Your average user (who doesn't necessarily know anything about software) doesn't really care about 1, and probably doesn't care about 2. They care about speed of the page, data consumption of the page, and maybe the look-and-feel of the page (bloated vs sane).
When I say HN user, i mean technically informed and most often skeptic people.
The distinction matters.