Re:One Month Without AMP
by omnifischer on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:58AM
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I for one still like AMP pages, especially for sites like BBC/verge/arstechnica when browsing from mobile. Sorry I do not want to use all my precious data for your tracking+analytics. A typical cdn.ampproject(google hosted) page for bbc transfers about 500kB whereas the same bbc mobile page 900kB. I made an android app that requests and loads the CDN version of the current page if possible, based on https://gist.githubusercontent.com/adewale/125f0cb2cb46b6af9...
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Re:One Month Without AMP
by BoorishBears on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @01:25PM
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AMP would have been fine and so much less controversial with a simple change.
Make the AMP icon (or some other element) lead to the AMP page and leave the normal link as the main search result.
I hate AMP for completely practical reasons and have no issue with the ideology. It messes up my back button, the top bar is annoying, and most importantly I frequently have AMP pages fail to load with a white screen but had the normal page load. It's bad enough they're tricking me into visiting an AMP page (I've never intended to visit one), but then it's broken when the source page isn't.
Good idea re 2 linked just like they do with a cached version
To each his own
Edit: I guess a larger point, if Google would penalize for size of download instead of promoting AMP, I am sure sites like BBC would work hard to shrink their mobile download size.
Google probably forward-thought the answer to the inevitable question "OK so you're telling me to reduce data transfer, how exactly do you want me to go about it?" by giving them a practical solution envisioning a win-win.