Airbnb is putting AMP at the core of its digital strategy

Re:Airbnb is putting AMP at the core of its digital strategy by dmitriid on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @02:34PM (#16423366)

Meanwhile in December AirBnB's HTML page weighed in at over 1MB. Of just HTML: https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/939097733260038144

They shouldn't put AMP at the core of their strategy. It's enough to just make proper pages (the page referenced in the link is now much slimmer)

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Re:Airbnb is putting AMP at the core of its digital strategy by api on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @02:39PM (#16423428)

But marketing wants this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and ...

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Re:Airbnb is putting AMP at the core of its digital strategy by TurningCanadian on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @04:10PM (#16424233)

Give the marketing team a performance budget to work within?

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Re:Airbnb is putting AMP at the core of its digital strategy by halfteatree on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @05:09PM (#16424699)

I mean, embedding data into html looks bad, but is it really worse than loading a script separately? This is basically the "bundling" on the HTML layer, i.e., what HTTP/2 should offer.

For a website like Airbnb, 1.9M for total asset size doesn't seem bad...

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Re:Airbnb is putting AMP at the core of its digital strategy by treve on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @01:05AM (#16427233)

I got 8MB for the entire site (homepage, from empty cache). I don't think it's that bad either. The webapp does also 'feel' bloated to me, but it might not be due to total transferred bytes, but rather just the JS heavy frontend.

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