A new technology has been keeping web publishers on their toes lately — AMP which stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages is the new boss around and very soon it will be responsible for determining your website’s google page rank.
Accelerated Mobile Pages is an open-source project by Google that aims to make mobile web pages super fast to load. In a time where the majority of people use the web via phones and tablets, with often slow internet connections, it’s a development that makes sense.
As mentioned on the official website of AMP project, The Accelerated Mobile Pages Project is an open source initiative that embodies the vision that publishers can create mobile optimized content once and have it load instantly everywhere.
How quickly will your AMP pages load?
We all know that everything we access on the internet is fetched by our browsers as HTML/HTML5 docs coupled with Java and other client-side scripts. AMP makes the webpages less buggy by eliminating the unnecessary scripts and forcing everything to be rendered in HTML only to deliver the rich contents in the webpage. Hence decreasing the overall size of the page to be rendered while keeping the contents intact and drastically decreasing the page load time.
AMP is lighter and faster. Visit the following link to check out AMP version of this page. https://mudasirali.com/amp-accelerated-mobile-pages/amp
What does AMP mean for SEO?
It’s pretty obvious that Google is pushing this feature hard. If an Accelerated Mobile Page gets more clicks and fewer bounces because it’s faster to load, Google determines that the page is valuable to users, and it’s likely to get higher placement in search results, makes sense?
If you run a blog or news site, implement AMP sooner rather than later.
How can I setup AMP on my WordPress?
Setting up Accelerated Mobile Pages is easy, with a few clicks you can make the slow connections fall in love with your website. WordPress was one of the first CMS giants to support AMP project and they have an awesome plugin to make the process very easy for their users. Or you can purchase a premium AMP plugin to have full control over your Accelerated Mobile Pages which will allow you to fully customize the pages and display ads along with your content to generate more revenue from speed loving audience.