Google AMP Criticism

Users like pages that load quickly, which amp is not a requirement for.Amp is designed to tighten googles grip on the web, nothing more.

Amp adds nothing to make a site faster. The opposite. It adds some mandatory libraries. It just imposes some restrictions on what a page can contain. So the version companies make to be included in amp might be smaller then their original version for that reason.We should downrank slow bloated sites directly instead. Then companies would have an incentive to make their sites fast from the start.

You could just not enable AMP if your site loads faster without it

The only reason AMP is faster than most webpages is because Google preloads and prerenders the content when you are still on the Google results page. It's not a fair contest. We've seen our HTML pages be consistently faster than our AMP pages when all else is even.

This site loads amazingly fast! Proves the point that you really don't need AMP.

- in most cases loading the amphtml page of the website is faster and contains the same article- Wait a few months until amp pages become as heavy, and then heavier than their html counterparts.Amp is at best a hacky temporary patch, it doesnt solve the problem.

https://developers.googleblog.com/2019/08/the-speed-benefit-... they are wrong

My understanding is that amp forces pages to stop doing the things they’ve been doing for years that made their pages bloated and slow to load.It’s too bad the sites just couldn’t do that on their own and avoid the need for amp.

AMP is essentially Google's answer to people creating terrible web experiences. It's been discussed and documented a lot. Common webpages today load content from dozens of different ad, tracking and whatever hosts, take several megabytes to load. All well known, but people don't stop doing it.Now Google comes along and says: You can't do it, let us do it. Which is perfectly reasonable from their point of view. And when I surf google news on my slow mobile connection I'

Technically speaking it does nothing of the sort. It helps websites be absorbed by Google so that Google can retain the user on their site. Which keeps the experience fast. But you don’t need Google to make your site fast, and in some cases using AMP can slow your site down. If it was just about making the web fast, there wouldn’t be AMP-only features. It would just be “fast only” and websites would have to meet certain criteria to pass that test. You should try using your brain a little more wh