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I am hostile towards AMP because the benefits it gives are overrated and easy to achieve if you know what you're doing. AMP is designed to strip down the comple
by ezfe 9y ago
I am hostile towards AMP because the benefits it gives are overrated and easy to achieve if you know what you're doing. AMP is designed to strip down the complexity and make pages small so they load fast (yes, there's more to it, I know), which is something that can be done with a little bit of knowledge about how page loading and resources work.
AMP is marketed as a pre-requisite for fast site loading, when in reality it's just one in many ways to achieve that. But with this ideology, Google prioritizes AMP pages because they must be the fastest, and they hijack the URLs on Mobile, again all in the name of Speed, but at what cost.
- recursive 9y agoAs a user, when faced with a hyperlink, there's really no way to know if the website on the other end of that link is operated by someone who "knows what they're doing". Part of AMP is the little icon next to the hyperlink, which acts like a certification.