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Similar to Medium, AMP encourages fast page loads and no interstitials, pop-ups or other cancer that seems to infest the average site these days. Yes, it may b
by davewasthere 10y ago
Similar to Medium, AMP encourages fast page loads and no interstitials, pop-ups or other cancer that seems to infest the average site these days.
Yes, it may be possible to fix it over time. But I see AMP and Medium as clean, lightweight platforms that developers/marketers want to emulate and users will start to demand.
From a user experience, you definitely can't beat the speed of AMP delivered content. So it's a high bar to beat. But if it forces content providers to up their game, I see it as a good thing.
I guess the scary point, that hasn't explicitly been mentioned, is what happens when a good portion (maybe not a majority) of content is AMP-enabled. Is it something we transition away from, or is it here to stay? Will non-AMP, but fast pages be second-class citizens in the new AMP-era?
- stonogo 10y agoNothing about Medium is lightweight. Consider this one-sentence article that results in a 1.2MB pageload: https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalism-846fc1412524 https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalism-846fc1... There are more examples and a broader examination available from idlewords: http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
- djrogers 10y agoLucky you - that medium link was a 2.19MB download on my laptop.
- bartread 10y agoThat's really strange. 760KB for me, but it was a good 3 - 4 seconds before everything had rendered. The article content was there much more quickly, but the recommendations and responses sections below took longer to appear. Crazy because when you look at Medium it does appear to be very clean so this experience has certainly been somewhat disillusioning.