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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everyt... by gregable on Saturday January 12, 2019 @11:00PM (#18894978)
I'm with you, but it's the reality. I just searched for "NASA" on google news, clicked the first thing not from JPL (https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/01/12/whos-who-in-nasas-...) and it loaded 2.6MB cold cache.

Fetched the same on the AMP Cache: https://www-fool-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.fool.com/amp... 200KB cold cache. Removing the likely cached resources (amp javascript, fontawesome cdn font) and the payload is ~35KB.

It's certainly possible to make a lightweight page, as hacker news is a great example, but people aren't doing it. For whatever reason, AMP seems to be effective at making the web actually follow best practices.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everyt... by grenadier21 on Sunday January 13, 2019 @01:06AM (#18895373)
No it's not. All the AMP websites I've seen were just as bad as their non-AMP counterparts. Reddit's AMP pages in particular, are slow and immensely frustrating to use.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everyt... by JohnFen on Monday January 14, 2019 @11:54AM (#18904371)
> AMP seems to be effective at making the web actually follow best practices.

Then those best practices aren't very good. In my experience, AMP is, on the whole, a detrimental thing that degrades web pages.

All I want is some way of telling sites to never give me an AMP page.

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