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Lean websites are NOT featured in the Top Stories carousel, only AMP websites, so this is not primarily about page speed. If page speed would be the main reason
by dessant 6y ago
Lean websites are NOT featured in the Top Stories carousel, only AMP websites, so this is not primarily about page speed. If page speed would be the main reason for AMP, they'd simply continue to demote websites that have poor performance in search results, and they'd curtail the main bloat from sites in Chrome, ads and trackers.
But I agree that Google has used this talking point successfully so far to bully publishers into giving up autonomy on their websites in exchange for being featured in top results, even when these sites have a great score on PageSpeed Insights.
- youngtaff 6y agoGoogle plans to change that as part of it's current focus on Core Web Vitals and non-AMP sites will be eligible to be in the Top Stories carousel if they're fast enough
- refulgentis 6y agoOff-topic hysterics