Re:I decided to disable AMP on my site
by dexterdog on Monday June 26, 2017 @01:08PM
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Unfortunately encouraging better design won't do much to most of the web. You have to guide with a heavy hand.
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I'd strongly disagree. If you hit them where it hurts, they'll change. I'll even argue that we haven't really tried encouraging sites to be better.
If Google ranked load-time/page-bloat much heavier in their algorithm, and started punishing bad pages, then sites would adjust.
I currently see very little action from Google in this direction.
Look at how successful the mobile-friendly push was at getting everyone from vaguely talking about responsive designs to doing it Right Now! Every user-visible benefit of AMP would happen following your comment – increase the weight for page load time/size and add a standard pre-fetch mechanism[1] which would close most of the gap for the CDN hosting.
1. i.e. the top n results will have rel=dns-prefetch tags hoisted into the search result, the top result (or visible/hover/etc.) will have the first rel=preload html/style/script tags hoisted.