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Did AMP improve the experience of Tribune Publishing websites? If it's hot garbage with AMP, removing it shouldn't hurt. But it will give them the ability to im

• nightpool 4y ago
  Yes, AMP does (or at least did) generally improve the UX and the load time of most pages that integrated it. No giant blobs of third party ad scripts, no huge interstitials that took over the entire page... Whatever else you might say about AMP, it did a good job at handcuffing publishers into not ruining their site with garbage
  • acdha 4y ago
    Except that it made most of them slower for mobile users because it blocked page display until over a megabyte of JavaScript had finished executing, at which point media files were unblocked. My local newspaper loaded noticeably faster without it but more importantly it was reliable: I could click on a link and read it while I was on the subway, but AMP pages frequently just burned my data plan for a blank page. They also broke scrolling for years and since the desktop experience was poor you had to deal with a hokey non-standard sharing widget.
• standyro 4y ago
  When I worked for Tribune (before the LA Times got sold off) it was a hot mess of adtech garbage like Taboola that nobody had the guts to get rid of.
  • earthboundkid 4y ago
    Tronc 4 lyfe.