Need help deciding if AMP makes sense for me

  • Resolved Roy

    (@clg87)


    6 years ago

    Based on my (limited) understanding, I’m not sure what additional value this AMP plugin might add to my environment. But I wanted to double check with someone in the know before dismissing it altogether. My site is prretty small and low traffic. I use it to promote my small business, just a one-man show doing IT suport and basic web development.

    I do have pretty permalinks, I do have a fast loading mobile and desktop site, I have mostly static pages and one blog page that I add a few paragraphs of content to every couple of weeks. I’ve spent a lot of time and effort optimzing SEO and speed already. The usual stuff (CDN, caching, lazy load, image compression, gzip, Yoast etc etc). Would AMP add anything signifcant to my users’ mobile experience?

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  • Roy, I Just put your site on GMetrix, Pagespeed A 100% & Yslow A 96% 2.7 seconds, not bad!

    Thread Starter Roy

    (@clg87)

    Most kind. But 2700ms is waaayyy too slow for my ridiculous expectations ??

    I busted my hump to get to those scores, and loved learning a ton along the way. I’m brand new to WordPress (and OceanWP, and Elementor, and everything else under the gigantic WordPress umbrella). My first outing with my little site is definitely amateur, but we all gotta start somewhere right?

    AMP is like a moutain, I want to climb it because it’s there. Plus it’s another cool learning. Plus it’s such competitive advantage: I read a stat the other day that in 2017, for the first time ever,cmobile has suprassed desktop browsing in N.America. 50.6 vs 40.4% measured traffic or something like that. And it’s only gonna go up.

    Thread Starter Roy

    (@clg87)

    I guess fingers crossed that my theme of choice (OceanWP) makes the short list. Congratulations on in your move to google and thanks for being so engaged and helpful. Cheers!

    Right now there’s a roll-out in progress regarding what’s being shown to mobile users. UK usage leans towards the mobile user as well.

    I have a project site that 1.6s Total Page Size 250KB and could still do better , but dare I say its not WP and only makes 23 requests, It’s a good learning curve all the same.

    Thread Starter Roy

    (@clg87)

    @westonruter thanks for your involvement. AMP is a great idea in principle but unfortunately the complexities, my other time commitments, and my aptitude make it unmanageable for me.

    I know disengaging fully from AMP is not as simple as deactivate/delete the plugin. Google Developers site describes canonical page source code mods, redirects, etc. To the extent that it’s possible, is there a streamlind / “silver bullet” tool or process that minimizes the amount of manual work? Or will AMP pages just get naturally de-indexed over time? Sorry for these neophyte questions but if I don’t ask the expert, I may do the wrong thing or waste a bunch of time unneccesarily.

    If you celebrate it, Merry Christmas. If not, happy holidys and thank you.

    Plugin Author Weston Ruter

    (@westonruter)

    If you can’t spend the time to make a theme and plugins AMP-compatible, then there is always the Classic mode you can fall back on.

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