What is Accelerated mobile pages

What are Accelerated Mobile Pages and what do they actually do

What are Accelerated Mobile Pages and what do they actually do

What is Accelerated Mobile Pages?

Accelerated Mobile Pages is a project of Google for making user experience better and faster on mobile devices. The user count of mobile devices like smartphones, tablets, etc. is increasing rapidly. The number of visitors from mobile devices is a serious number to consider. If your website is not optimized for mobile then you might be losing potential clients. Google and other search engines are also taking the mobile compatibility factor seriously for evaluating the search engine rankings of websites.

In simple words – Websites that are optimized for mobile viewing will get an advantage in search engine ranking methodology and algorithms.

Why are Mobile Compatible Websites so important after all?

  1. Mobile consumes less electricity than laptops and desktop computers and has almost the same computing power if viewing websites for getting information is considered.
  2. The number of users who own a laptop or laptop is less than the number of smartphone and tablet owners.
  3. Mobile devices have better portability.

There are many other factors that conclude the importance of mobile devices for searching for information on the internet and visiting websites.

Mobile Data Charges are considerably high and users get a limited amount of data in a month. The desktop version of the website consumes more data and all the components are really not required to be loaded on the mobile version of the same website.

Media size, page size, etc can be reduced and compressed for the mobile screen which will save data and hence data consumption charges.

AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages is a technology that can be used to build separate mobile pages for your website with the same content that is already created for the main website. The only difference will be the page size and the removal of unnecessary scripts and media.

In short – AMP produces lightweight and fast-loading pages for mobile devices.

You will get a better chance of ranking your website higher in search engines for mobile-originated searches.

Users will be automatically redirected to your AMP-enabled website if they are searching from their mobile devices.

You can see a Desktop Version of my website:

http://digital-marketing-course.slidescope.com/

& the Amp-enabled version of the same website.

http://digital-marketing-course.slidescope.com/amp

You will notice that the AMP version loads much faster than the Desktop version but the desktop version is way prettier than the AMP version.

I am keeping both of them and the majority of users on my website are from the Web (Desktop).

After installing and configuring AMP for my website I am able to see a small AMP logo besides my listing on Google search results from my android smartphone.

How to get amp logo on search result

In order to check number of AMP pages indexed in search engine you can see your Google Webmaster Tool Dashboard.

Accelerated Mobile Pages in Google Webmaster Tools

How to Get Started with AMP?

If you are using a CMS like WordPress then it is a lot easier to set up AMP on your website by using a plugin that will do almost everything for you.

If you have a website that is not built on any CMS tool then you have to do some basic coding to get things done.

You must be familiar with Basic HTML coding, CSS, and Javascript to better understand AMP coding.

You can get started by following these documents:

https://www.ampproject.org/docs/getting-started/

If you want AMP enabled for your website you can Contact Us

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