Update 6/26/2020: Since this blog post went live, AMP has officially graduated from the OpenJS Foundation Incubation Program. See the news here. On behalf the AMP Project, I am happy to announce that AMP is joining the OpenJS Foundation incubation program. AMP was founded as an open source project four years ago to provide a […] Read more
People Behind The Code: Simon Rønbøl’s AMP journey
When AMP launched in 2015, Simon was starting his career with Online-Results A/S. He’d been researching AMP in his spare time to hone his skills and stay up-to-date with industry trends. Eventually, he learned enough to build a static site generator for AMP pages from his home. Having developed a passion for AMP, he brought […] Read more
Powerful impact: Why we AMPized the Australian pop culture site – GOAT
Editor’s Note: The following post was written by Leo Postovoit, Strategist at XWP. NOVA Entertainment is one of Australia’s most recognized media brands with a history of radio, media, and local content stretching back 19 years; and GOAT is NOVA’s pop culture, news and entertainment platform built for a mobile-first audience. GOAT is the first […] Read more
AMP Advisory Committee midterm election results
In early August, we announced a midterm election for the AMP Advisory Committee (AC) with the goal of increasing the diversity of the AC’s membership. Right after we announced the election, Dane Knecht of Cloudflare resigned from his position on the AC, thus freeing an extra seat, but also reducing the presence of CDNs in […] Read more
How Developers are Creating WordPress AMP Experiences Content Creators LOVE to Use
Editor’s Note: The following post was written by David Vogelpohl, VP of Web Strategy at WP Engine. WP Engine is a digital experience platform for WordPress. In the web development world we often use tools for automation, read books on project efficiency, and deploy an army of techniques to deliver innovation at a faster and […] Read more
Analytics for your Web Stories
Web Stories are a new way of telling stories on the open web. The stories are hosted on your domain, and the format allows you to add assets best suited for the job. Since the 2017 launch, we’ve seen many, many, many examples of engaging and informative stories published to the web. Analytics capabilities of […] Read more
Making Your Wait a Little More Great: New Loading Indicators in AMP
This post is from the AMP Design Team. We’re product designers and researchers responsible for making sure AMP’s components and overall experience are usable, accessible, and elegant. You can find us hanging out with the UI and Accessibility Working Group on GitHub or in the Contributor Slack. One of the biggest ways that AMP improves […] Read more
amp-script: AMP ❤️ JS
Earlier this year at AMP Conf, we introduced the developer preview of <amp-script>. Now we are announcing the general availability of <amp-script>. It’s an AMP component that runs your own JavaScript in a separate Worker thread. This lets you to add custom JavaScript to your AMP page while still retaining its lightning-fast speed! <amp-script> lets […] Read more
Announcing AMP Toolbox 1.0
AMP Toolbox has been around for a while now, but I thought it’s a good idea to make a proper introduction now that we’ve reached the 1.0 milestone. In short, AMP Toolbox is a collection of command line tools and JS APIs to make it easier to successfully publish AMP pages. Each tool can be […] Read more
Faster AMP on the origin: AMP + SSR = ⚡
AMP now officially supports a technique called server-side rendering (SSR) which you can apply to your AMP pages to make them load even faster. Our tests show increases of up to a whopping 50% on the popular FCP metric. The Google AMP Cache has utilized this technique for a while, but now you can also […] Read more