In September I announced a proposal for a new governance model for AMP that more explicitly gives a voice to all constituents of the community. Since that announcement we have worked with the community to improve the proposal through a wide variety of channels including comments on the proposal pull request on GitHub, issues in […] Read more
Month: November 2018
Progressively AMPlify EC-CUBE
EC-CUBE, one of the largest open source ecommerce CMSes in Japan, has released a beta plugin to use AMP for their ecommerce stores. The plugin was built by EC-CUBE’s well known partner SUNDAY SYSTEMS, Inc. in collaboration with Mobile Solutions Consultants from Google, in just one month 😲. For websites who use EC-CUBE, you can […] Read more
Launching Ad Monetization for Web Stories
We’ve seen steady growth over the past year in AMP Stories and we are delighted to see the various ways content creators have taken advantage of the rich, immersive canvas for storytelling. We’ve been testing this with a handful for pilot partners and today, we are excited to give all content creators an opportunity to […] Read more
Developer Preview of better AMP URLs in Google Search
AMP users and publishers have told us that they prefer that the original domain names be used anywhere their AMP pages are displayed. Earlier this year, we demonstrated a technology named Signed HTTP Exchanges that supports transforming cached AMP URLs on any AMP Cache. Google Chrome has since started an origin trial for Signed Exchanges in Chrome 71. Today Google Search […] Read more
So your AMP test doesn’t perform — now what?
Editor’s note: The following was posted on Medium by Martin Schierle, Mobile Solutions Consultant at Google. Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are a great and easy way to build very fast pages, and as we know speed is key — for every second delay in mobile page load, conversions can fall by up to 20%. So obviously the first thing people […] Read more
Streaming in the Shadow Reader
What did we do? We made The Shadow Reader faster again! We created The Shadow Reader (https://amp.cards) to demonstrate how AMP pages can be used within a Progressive Web App (PWA) (read our announcement post for more context). The site folds real articles from The Guardian into an immersive news reader experience. It’s a demo, but […] Read more