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AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages
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AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages

by Ruadhan O'Donoghue
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
370 pages
8h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Controversy and criticisms of AMP

To achieve its performance, the AMP team have made design decisions that have resulted in aspects of AMP that seem incompatible with a distributed and open web. The most contentious of these are outlined as follows:

  • The AMP cache is owned and run by Google: With the performance optimizations of AMP-HTML and AMP-JS you get fast web pages. Add pre-rendering and you get instant-loading pages. But pages are only pre-rendered when they are served from the Google controlled AMP Cache. And you only get the AMP lightning badge if your pages are pre-rendered via the cache. So this leads to an uncomfortable situation, where you only get the benefits if you agree to have your pages hosted and served from Google's servers. ...
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