Broadly speaking, yes they do. It is faster in the vast majority of cases, and non-techie friends of mine speak enthusiastically about the lightning bolt icon. Of course, they don't understand the implications of it.
> and non-techie friends of mine speak enthusiastically about the lightning bolt icon.
Which makes me think it's just confirmation bias. They expect it to be faster, and so perceive it as faster. Just like when Windows Vista was presented to users as the new Windows 7 (only the branding was changed for the experiment), and they openly stated it was noticeably better/faster than Windows Vista.
Re:State of web browsers in 2018
by Wowfunhappy on Thursday December 06, 2018 @02:50PM
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I'm not quite so quick to dismiss this out of hand, despite my own (negative) experiences with AMP.
Google is certainly capable of making mistakes, but I find it hard to believe they would invest so much into AMP without strong metrics to indicate that AMP pages load faster overall. And on a theoretical level, the explanations of why AMP should be faster also make sense.
Note the phrasing, that's an important part of what I'm referring to: they're talking about the icon instead of the speed directly.
Re:State of web browsers in 2018
by kiriakasis on Sunday December 09, 2018 @06:10AM
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In my experience it is the google search app that is extremely slow (android on a underpowered nokia 6) I installed duckduckgo search because google hangs my device for a few second every 5-6 keypresses
Do people actually like AMP?
I hate it and strongly wish I could disable it for all Google search results. It's supposed to make pages load in more quickly, but for some reason they always seem to be slower for me.