How Google AMP Has Affected Mobile App Development

Google has launched AMP ( Accelerated Mobile Pages ) in order to improve the website load time . So in case you are planning to move on to AMP on your website , you must be aware of its pros and cons together with proper method to implant AMP on your website .

Google AMP is an open source framework which is currently supported by Google , Twitter , Linkedin etc . As Google has a mythology of introducing something which can be easily used by anyone , AMP fact is also the same – it can be used by an app , browser or web viewer . As it is era of mobile app development , everyone is trying to enhance user experience . Google AMP is a combiner’s of HTML5, JS and other catch libraries . Google keep on enhancing the AMP technology from time to time , and has recently come up with these 2 types of optimisation :

1) Images : After images are getting matched , it can be loaded more quickly . For this meta could be removed , but before that make sure it does not affect user experience .

2) A more lite version : A lite version of AMP is primarily focusing on areas where internet signal is very slow and images takes lots of time to download . A lite version focuses on displaying some information that is meant and is informational .

Pros And Cons Of Google AMP

Although no question asked , AMP delivers faster load time of web pages on mobile websites and thereby automatically delivers richer user experience , traffic and position but as a fact everything has their cons to !

Pros

By proper implementation of AMP , you can get a way out to stand higher in the crowd as google is offering higher ranking to AMP pages .
AMP speed up the mobile website and load time and thereby delivers fast page response .
If you are the one whose major part of traffic comes from mobile then AMP aids you with improvement of server performance .

Cons

AMP is set of HTML , Javascript and CSS , and hence app developers will not be able to add any features or widgets .
AMP is most widely accept by google only with specific google analytics tags , but it might not be the case of every other analytics platform .
Implementing ad on AMP pages is complicated task to achieve with .

Benefits Of AMP

SEO Enhancement

For any company to attract more visitors , search engine ranking is what they need to pay their attention on . Anyone here expertise in digital marketing and SEO ? If not then just to let you know page load time plays a important role in your search engine optimisation (SEO) and website ranking , and implementing AMP on search pages will be welcomed by google on the basis of their search algorithms and will have a positive impression on SERP’s .

Low Bounce Rate

As the page load time is minimal , visitors will not tend to leave . AMP is just another framework used mainly for creating mobile web pages with using HTML , JS and other things as specified by Google . So if you are in planning of implementation of AMP you will certainly see low bounce rate on your website .

Speedy Website Load Time

As per the recent reports of Google almost 53 % of the visitors will leave your website if it takes more than 3 seconds to load . Since AMP decreased the page load time , no one can deny that it delivers great results with better page load time which indirectly influences more traffic and user engagement .

Conclusion

No further question asked , we all know that AMP provides easy solution for improvement of site speed of mobile websites . In the new year 2019 , we can expect some further enhancement and released by Google for further enhancement .

How Google Accelerated Mobile Pages Has Affected Mobile App Development