Accelerate Your Website Performance with AMP: A Beginner’s Guide

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is an open-source framework developed by Google that helps to improve the loading speed of web pages on mobile devices. The main goal of AMP is to provide a faster and smoother experience for users by reducing the amount of code and resources needed to render a page.

Implementing AMP on your website can bring a number of benefits, including increased visibility in search results, improved user engagement, and higher conversion rates.

To get started with AMP, you’ll need to create a separate version of your web pages that conform to the AMP HTML specification. This typically involves removing certain types of code, such as JavaScript and some CSS, and using only a subset of HTML tags. You’ll also need to add a few extra AMP-specific tags and attributes to your pages, such as the “amp-img” tag for images.

Once you’ve created your AMP pages, you’ll need to add them to your website and ensure that they are properly linked to the non-AMP versions of your pages. You can use the AMP Validator tool to check that your pages are valid AMP and fix any errors.

Finally, you’ll need to make sure that your AMP pages are indexed by Google and other search engines. You can do this by adding a link to the non-AMP version of your pages in the head of your AMP pages, and by submitting your sitemap to Google Search Console.