Re:Why the bounce rate of AMP pages is so high
by vorpalhex on Friday March 10, 2017 @11:17AM
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1. Lots of users care. Watch any senior citizen on a mediocre PC surf the internet for twenty minutes.
2. Google did and still does. Load times were still unacceptable across the board, usually not because they had to be but often times because the people running the websites don't care enough to. Same as for HTTPS.
3. AMP is a more drastic reaction. It appears to be working.
That being said, I would like to see AMP become enacted only on sites that do actually take a long while to load. At the same time, AMP is still opt in. This isn't forced altruism, but you can play nicely or be lowered in rankings in response.
2. Google did and still does. Load times were still unacceptable across the board, usually not because they had to be but often times because the people running the websites don't care enough to. Same as for HTTPS.
3. AMP is a more drastic reaction. It appears to be working.
That being said, I would like to see AMP become enacted only on sites that do actually take a long while to load. At the same time, AMP is still opt in. This isn't forced altruism, but you can play nicely or be lowered in rankings in response.
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