Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there's no choice but to use it

Re:Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there's no choice ... by v7p1Qbt1im on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:38AM (#19631934)

Sure. But USA Today EU is not really a fair example. You can‘t really expect publishers to serve absolutely no ads and tracking at all. Unless you want them to die. There are initiatives like Apple News+ and Subscribe with Google but they are not mainstream yet. And individual subscriber options for news portals are way to cumbersome (and perceived as too expensive) for users.

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Re:Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there's no choice ... by rymate1234 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:16AM (#19633586)

I agree, but the solution is for ad companies to improve so you don't need tons of JavaScript to display an advert. Why can't they be done server side, rather than handled by client side JavaScript? A lot of web apps now employ SSR, so having the adverts use SSR should considerably speed them up

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