If you haven’t heard of Google’s AMP or Facebook’s Instant Articles, you are missing out on what is the next iteration of the Internet. Using a combination of development guidelines, as well as caching technology, these programs will allow articles and websites to load almost instantly. That alone is pretty awesome. What makes it even more awesome is that Automattic has already released plugins for both technologies: AMP WordPress Plugin and Instant Articles for WP. Anyone with a WordPress site can start taking advantage of this technology today. But I want to discuss something I’ve only seen mentioned here and […]
What You Need To Know About AMP And Instant Articles
While there have been many efforts to make the web faster, the mobile web is still pretty slow. This can be attributed to slow mobile networks or to websites that aren’t optimized for mobile. But ever since mobile web use surpassed desktop usage, companies have been working to build better, faster mobile web experiences. They’ve seen how a slow web page can affect their profits. For every second it takes their website to load, they lose a substantial percentage of visitors. In fact, according to Kissmetrics, “47 percent of consumers expect a web page to load in two seconds or […]
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