AMP? about hugo-theme-bootstrap4-blog HOT 7 CLOSED

I haven't read much about AMP yet, only some negative things about how you lose a bit of control of your content. See this recent blog post and its discussion on Hacker News:

• https://www.alexkras.com/google-may-be-stealing-your-mobile-traffic/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12722590

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Interesting read. So one could make the site AMP ready and make the head-element which turns on the AMP machinery at the big providers optional.

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Frankly I'm not very concerned with AMP right now. This theme is very small and behaves very well by the web standards. My only concern is that Google is giving sites that use AMP a boost in their search results.

The vast majority of page size comes from content anyways. Like your blog homepage loads 1.9MB, mostly in images — that's a heavy price to pay for mobile users who casually arrive on your homepage. You could limit your homepage to only show ~3 or so posts and then you would see much more improvement in user experience than with AMP (which would surely caution against loading large images as well).

I am a bit annoyed that we have to include the whole of Font Awesome just so we can use ~5 icons (folder, tag, and social icons), so I might look at customizing that in the build process, though.

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Ok, on this note, I've reduced the size of the Font Awesome stuff by ~30KiB. If the server hosting the blog supports gzip — as your and my blogs do — the CSS will be compressed and these savings are only about 7KiB. In any case, this is a win for less data transferred over the wire and less memory used on the device when the stylesheet is unzipped. 👍

See: 4d79004

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Cool! Thanks.

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Eek! More bad things with AMP:

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/11/removing-your-site-from-amp/

Really horrible. Not a fan!

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Yes, looks bad.

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